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" There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other, by taking the best parts... "
Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients - Page 240
by Francis Bacon - 1884 - 425 pages
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - 1772 - 374 pages
...known to have been remarkably fond. " There is no excellent beauty, that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles...were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical proportions ; the other by taking the beft parts out of divers faces, to make...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ...: Containing His ..., Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...confining proportion to rules, or of producing beauty by selection. " A man cannot " tell, (says he,) whether Apelles or Albert " Durer were the more trifler: whereof the " one would make a personage by geome" trical proportions; the other, by taking " the best parts out of divers faces, to make " one...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...Added to his treatise entitled, Della Ragion Poetica. In Napoli. 1716. pag. 239,250. t Ver. 141. ness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles...trifler : whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent....
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope ...

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...than juft to regulate their operations. WARBURTOJU. NOTES. lent beauty that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles,...were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by ~geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the beft parts out of divers facci to...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...Poetics. lu Napoli. 1716. pag. 239,250. t Ver. 141. ness in the proportion, A man cannot tell ther Apelles or Albert Durer .were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent....
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...NOTES. lent beauty that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether A pelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the bed parts out of divers facet to make...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...favour is more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot...the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles, oy Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions:...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...favour is more than that of colour ; and that of descent and gracious motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot...trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent....
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The invisible hand

Invisible hand - 1815 - 278 pages
...comely, though not of delicate features ; and that hath rather dignity of presence than beauty of aspect. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. LORD BACON. sister and I were now left alone. Though young, we already felt the force of that inquiry...
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The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected ...

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...times; because his thoughts will spontaneously fly to them, as other studies and business give leave. That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; or even the life itself at first sight. Tender and delicate persons are in danger of being oflea angry,...
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