 | 1846 - 824 pages
...yet equal to the expression of the most commanding passion — a face gifted peculiarly with that " best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express — no, nor the first sight of the life," — a face, wonderful indeed, in the magic and variety of its expression. Along with these she possesses... | |
 | James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - 1848 - 586 pages
...that of favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot...proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert 1Jiirer were the more triflcr ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions,... | |
 | John Burnet - 1848 - 244 pages
...that dignity which beauty acquires from appearing the preserver of its highest quality. Bacon says, " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life." Sir Joshua seems to have laboured to represent this inward excellence; and we can fancy the grace and... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour. That is the best par! of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor...tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more triffer ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical propor*;ons : the other, by taking... | |
 | J. D. Bell - 1850 - 486 pages
...agreeable in my own eye and not deformed in that of the world, to a celebrated beauty." Says Lord Bacon : " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life." Says the venerable Fuller: "Neither choose all, nor not at all, for beauty." Love, without reason,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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...cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more6 trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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...cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the greater trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by... | |
 | 1861 - 490 pages
...inspiring principle of art. Few have been able to give any expression of it — none perfectly ; " that is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express, no, nor the first sight of life ;" while man, carried away by impure desires, often fails to recognise the reflection of it that... | |
 | 1891 - 444 pages
...ceaseless, most subtle movement — a most important attribute. " That," says Lord Bacon (essay on Beauty) " is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life, decent" (ie, becoming) "and gracious moiion." Still, it is thought this apparently simple instrument,... | |
 | 1854 - 478 pages
...Nicholas Hilliard, a painter of portraits in miniature, who died in 1619. АКТ AND AKTISTS. BACON says, "That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express — no, nor the first sight of life." Sir Joshua Reynolds seems, to have laboured to represent this inward excellence; an 1 we can... | |
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That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; * no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. 
