 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...is more than that of colour ; and that of decent 2 and gracious 3 motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot...tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more 4 trifler ; 5 whereof the one would make n personage by geometrical proportions : the other, by taking... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1870 - 420 pages
...truth. (20) The wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. (21) Unsafe are all things unbecoming. (22) There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (23) It is a poor centre of a man's actions, himself. (24) Mercy but murders, pardoning those that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 634 pages
...Excellent Beauty, that hath notfome Strangenefle in the Proportion. A Man cannot tell, whether Apdles, or Albert Durer, were the more Trifler : Whereof the one would make a*" Perfonage by Geometricall Proportions : The other, by taking the beft Parts out of diuers Faces, to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...favour ' is more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious2 motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot...would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; 3 the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent.4 Such personages,... | |
 | Heathergate - 1873 - 316 pages
...now that I have been a week here, she recalls to my mind Lord Bacon's words in his Essay on Beauty. ' That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot...express ; no — nor the first sight of the life.' Neither pen of poet, nor pencil of artist can describe the various moods and graces of .this charming... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...favour 4 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...Albert Durer were the more' trifler; whereof the one ' Almost. Far the mosl part; generally. ' Who is there almost, whose mind at some time or other, love... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1874 - 360 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious motion more than that I5 of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot...Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof 20 46 ©f aSeautg [Essay 43 the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 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...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 by part,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...uncommon. 2 Here decent and gracious are becoming awl graceful. a picture cannot express ; no, nor tho first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty...hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man caunot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more8 trifler; whereof the one would make a personage... | |
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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. 
