 | William Stanley Jevons - 1879 - 364 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 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. A ra<in cannot tell whether Apellt'S or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the One would make... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 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 XLIV., Of Beauty. A man shall see faces that, tf you examine them part by part,... | |
 | Thomas Miller Maguire - 1880 - 140 pages
...vena porta of wealth in a state." " Inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old." " A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler." " Where nature erreth in the one, she ventureth in the other." ' ' Lucullus answered Pompey well. "... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...the same, but the same was no longer becoming to him." 9 " His last deeds fell short of the first." a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight...tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more 8 trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other, by taking... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1881 - 364 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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. 697 Essays 'Of Beauty' chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. 8 698 Essays 'Of Ceremonies and Respects' Light gains make heavy purses. 671 699 Essays 'Of Ceremonies... | |
 | Gary William Flake - 2000 - 524 pages
...I. (1990). Does God play dice?: The mathematics of chaos. Oxford: Blackwell. 1 1 Strange Attractors There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions. — Francis Bacon / am strangely attracted to you. — Cole Porter I N THIS CHAPTER we... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...favour12 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...tell whether Apelles* or Albert Durer* were the more trifler;13 whereof the one would make a personage14 by 1 passions 2 soon 3 weak, thin 4 acumen, sharpness... | |
 | Hedi Siegel - 1999 - 348 pages
...for this article is well expressed in a famous quotation from Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."' This statement is excerpted from one of Bacon's forays into what was then a developing literary form,... | |
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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. 
