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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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Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 292 pages
...times. In beauty, that of 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 exESSAY XLHI. press ; no, nor the first sight of the life. of Beauty. There is no excellent beauty...
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The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 pages
...Beauty, that of Favour, is more then that of Colour, And that of Decent and Gracious Motion, more then that of Favour. That is the best Part of Beauty, which a Picture cannot expresse; No nor the first Sight of the Life. There is no Excellent Beauty, that hath not some Strangenesse...
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1902 - 868 pages
...and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour. That is the l>e»t part of beauly F V M M MSW R R W=U>U?U S L^R_R`SaS#L<Q @ ) G N T S(V strangene>< in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler...
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Extracts from FitzGerald's letters relating to the "Two dramas of Calderon ...

Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 352 pages
...employ whole days in working upon a single part, without satisfying himself at last. 2. So says Bacon, " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of life neither." " Directly in the face of most intellectual tea-circles, it may be asserted, that no...
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Manual

1903 - 898 pages
...orb again. ci The opening and well-balancing of trade, ii. The turning of the cat in the pan. iii. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. iv. They that are glorious must needs be factious ; for all bravery stands upon comparisons. v. The...
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Miscellanies of Edward Fitzgerald

Edward FitzGerald - 1904 - 268 pages
...days in working upon a single part, without satisfying himself at last.—Hazlitt. 2. So says Bacon. " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of life neither." " Directly in the face of most intellectual tea-circles, it may be asserted that no...
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The Essays, Or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 pages
...In beauty, that 15 of favour0 is more than that of colour0 ; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of...life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strange20 ness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles0 or Albert Diirer0 were the more0...
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Good words, ed. by N. Macleod

Norman Macleod - 1869 - 1092 pages
...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 motion." Still, it is through this apparently simple instrument,...
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The Kentuckian

1906 - 314 pages
...Girls' Basket Ball Team ; President, Neville Literary Society ; KSCAA Thesis: "Rise of Epic Poetry." "That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express." ANNA WALLIS, "Big One," AB, Lexington, Kentucky. Psi Sorority ; Neville Literary Society ; Treasurer,...
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The Essays

Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...that of Favour9 is more then that of ' Colour, And that of Decent and Gracious Motion10 more 15 then that of Favour. That is the best Part of Beauty, which a Picture cannot expresse ; No, nor the first Sight of the Life". There is no Excellent Beauty that hath not some Strangenesse...
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