Laocoon: an essay on the limits of painting and poetry, tr. by E.C. BeasleyLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 |
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... Homer's wounded heroes frequently fall with cries to the ground . He makes Venus , when merely scratched , shriek aloud ; not that he may thereby paint the effeminacy of the goddess of pleasure , but rather that he may give suffering ...
... Homer's wounded heroes frequently fall with cries to the ground . He makes Venus , when merely scratched , shriek aloud ; not that he may thereby paint the effeminacy of the goddess of pleasure , but rather that he may give suffering ...
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... Homer makes the Trojans march to the combat with wild cries , the Greeks , on the contrary , in resolute silence , the critics justly observe that the poet intended to depict the one as barbarians , the other as a civilized people . f ...
... Homer makes the Trojans march to the combat with wild cries , the Greeks , on the contrary , in resolute silence , the critics justly observe that the poet intended to depict the one as barbarians , the other as a civilized people . f ...
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... Homer puts in the mouth of the intelligent son of Nestor . It is worth observing that among the few tragedies which have come down to us from antiquity , two are found in which bodily pain constitutes not the lightest part of the ...
... Homer puts in the mouth of the intelligent son of Nestor . It is worth observing that among the few tragedies which have come down to us from antiquity , two are found in which bodily pain constitutes not the lightest part of the ...
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... Homer , the greatest of descriptive poets , and a second nature . He shews him what rich and hitherto unemployed materials for the most excellent pictures the story written by the Greek affords , and that the more closely he adheres ...
... Homer , the greatest of descriptive poets , and a second nature . He shews him what rich and hitherto unemployed materials for the most excellent pictures the story written by the Greek affords , and that the more closely he adheres ...
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... Homer , had existed in the poet's time , and we knew that he had derived his work from them , would he not be immeasurably lowered in our admiration ? How then does it happen that we withdraw none of our high esteem from the artist ...
... Homer , had existed in the poet's time , and we knew that he had derived his work from them , would he not be immeasurably lowered in our admiration ? How then does it happen that we withdraw none of our high esteem from the artist ...
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ઃઃ Achilles Æneas Æneid Æsop Agesander ancient artists Apelles appears Athenodorus attributes Bacchus beauty bestowed bodily pain body borrowed Cæsars called Caylus Chabrias CHAPTER contrary disgusting divine drapery effect executed expression eyes feel figure follow fury goddess gods Greek hand Harduin Helen Hercules hero History of Art Homer horrible Ialysus idea Iliad imagination imitation LAMURE Laocoon latter less Lysippus Mars master means ment mentioned merely nature Neoptolemus never Nicias NOTE object Olympiad once Ovid painter painting passage Pausanias Phidias Philoctetes picture piece pleasure Pliny poet poetical poetry Polydorus Polygnotus Polymetis produce Pythodorus quæ reason render representation represented Roman says sculptors sensations serpents shew shield shriek single Sophocles speaking Spence Statius statue suffering supposed taste Thersites tion traits ture ugliness Venus Vesta Virgil visible Vulcan whilst whole Winkelmann wish words δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸ
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Seite 154 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother...
Seite 155 - But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph...
Seite 232 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure Description held the place of sense?
Seite 139 - Bianca nieve è il bel collo, e '1 petto latte; il collo è tondo, il petto colmo e largo: due pome acerbe, e pur d'avorio fatte, vengono e van come onda al primo margo, quando piacevole aura il mar combatte.
Seite 51 - Bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum Terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Seite 155 - Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace...
Seite 154 - Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? With baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Seite 208 - Sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora. Diffugimus visu exsangues. Illi agmine certo Laocoonta petunt, et primum parva duorum Corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque Implicat, et miseros morsu depascitur artus.
Seite 132 - Tandem progreditur magna stipante caterva, Sidoniam picto chlamydem circumdata limbo. Cui pharetra ex auro, crines nodantur in aurum, aurea purpuream subnectit fibula vestem.
Seite 129 - Sotto quel sta, quasi fra due vallette La bocca sparsa di natio cinabro; Quivi due filze son di perle elette, Che chiude ed apre un bello, e dolce labro: Quindi escon le cortesi parolette Da render molle ogni cor rozzo e scabro: Quivi si forma quel soave riso, Ch'apre a sua posta in terra il paradiso.