 ... proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them; not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do...  Literary and professional works - Page 226by Francis Bacon - 1864Full view - About this book
 | 1880 - 996 pages
...but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was, but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and not by rule," should perhaps be remembered chiefly by painters who have no suspicion that they possess "a kind of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...of their women, that he might combine in his picture the excellences of alL (Cicero, De Invent. ii,) an excellent air in music) and not by rule. A man...part by part, you shall find never a good ; and yet all together do well. If it be true, that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was, but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music),...though persons in years seem many times more amiable: ' Pulchrorum autumnus pulcher"—for no youth can be comely but by pardon, and considering the youth... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity s The Strength of Kings. They say the goodliest cedars which grow on the high ; pulchrorum autumnus pulcher ; for no youth can be comely but by pardon, and considering The youth... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. LORD BACON : Essay XL IV., Of Beauty. A man shall see faces that, if you examine them part...it is no marvel though persons in years seem many limes more amiable : " pulchorum antumnus pulcher;" for no youth can be comely but by pardon, and considering... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was, but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music),...part by part, you shall find never a good, and yet 30 all togetherdo wel1. If it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,)...shall see faces that, if you examine them part by partj you shall find never a good ; and yet all together do well. If it be true that the principal... | |
 | William Swinton - 1876 - 124 pages
...things, and has come to denote a quality (A persons only. If it be true that the principal part of treaty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel though persons in years seem many times more amiable. BACON'S Essays. Ancient, noun. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people. —... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 pages
...but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music), and not by rule." Nothing of excellent is to be done by felicity. Barrow. Felicity and Excellence rarely meet, and hardly... | |
 | William Swinton - 1876 - 116 pages
...things, and has come to denote a quality of persons only. If it be true that the principal part of treaty is in decent motion, certainly it is no* marvel though persons in yearsseem many times more amiable, BACON'S Essays. Ancient, noun. The Lord will enter into judgment... | |
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