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" That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no nor the first sight of life. "
Sig. 2x2-4B3 of vol.1 . Lectures, delivered in the Royal academy - Page 388
by James Barry - 1831
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...times. In beauty, that of 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 7 He lived iu the second century after Christ, and is said to have lost his memory at the age of twenty-five....
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The biblical museum. Old Testament, Volume 1

James Comper Gray - 1876 - 412 pages
...father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury." Sclxrptnhauer. "That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express." Bacon. a Booto/Dayi. beaten oil for the light a 1 Jo. ii. 20 ; Pa. cxix. 106; .Mn v. 16. 6 Ex. ixvi....
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The Cheveley novels. A modern minister [by V. Durrant].

Valentine Durrant - 1877 - 560 pages
...hot wall without;" and would think his beauty-quest at least had the moral of Bacon's words, — " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express." Yet the picture was passing fair, as she would sit between him and the open window, looking upon the...
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Quite a Gentleman

Quite - 1878 - 90 pages
...more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour," and " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life."—And why is that ? but that beauty of mind is able to compensate for, if not to overcome, the...
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The Essays (I-LVIII) Or, Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...times. In Beauty, that of favour 6 is more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of...picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life.7 There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot...
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The essays, i-(lviii) or, Counsels civil and moral of Francis lord ..., Volume 2

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 pages
...times. In Beauty, that of favour 6 is more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of...picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life.7 There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...times. In beauty, that of favour is more than that of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion s with him in the gospel ; but servants being commanded...shall stand still till they have their errand warrante life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...times. In beauty, that of favour is more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion e of the cover! life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell...
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Text-book of Prose from Burke, Webster, and Bacon: With Notes, and Sketches ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...times. In beauty, that of favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious 2 motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which 7 He lived in the second century after Christ, and is said to have lost his memory at the age of twenty-five....
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The Querist's Birthday Book, Language of Flowers, and Confession Album, with ...

Querist - 1882 - 180 pages
...precepts. 8 Quick at meat quick at work. Penny wise and pound foolish. 9 Quick returns make rich merchants. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. — Bacon. Opportunities neglected are irrecoverable. Pity is a poor doctor. 10 Rome was not built...
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