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The complete works of sir Joshua Reynolds, with an orig. memoir and ... - Page 48
by sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824
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An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
..." There is no excellent beauty, that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer, were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical * 'j. Vincentii Gravime Je POESI, ad S. Maffeium EPIST. Added to his treatife...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - Verse satire, English - 1772 - 374 pages
..." There is no excellent beauty, that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer, were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical proportions ; the other by taking the beft parts out of divers faces, to make...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ...: Containing His ..., Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...if industry carried them thus far, may not you also hope for the same reward from the same labour? we have the same school opened to us, that was opened...trifler: whereof the " one would make a personage by geome" trical proportions; the other, by taking " the best parts out of divers faces, to make " one...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...Ragion Poetic*. In Napoli. 1716. pag. 239,250. f Ver. HI. ness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think, a painter...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...Poetics. lu Napoli. 1716. pag. 239,250. t Ver. 141. ness in the proportion, A man cannot tell ther Apelles or Albert Durer .were the more trifler : whereof...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think, a painter...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope ...

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...WARBURTOJU. NOTES. lent beauty that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by ~geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the beft parts out of divers facci to...
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...NOTES. lent beauty that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether A pelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the bed parts out of divers facet to make...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles, oy Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please no body but the painter that made them: not but I think a painter...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please no body but the painter that made them ; not but I think a painter...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...life. There i* no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler;...best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such personages I think would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter...
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