Laocoon: an essay on the limits of painting and poetry, tr. by E.C. BeasleyLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 |
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... means of arriving at ideal beauty ; and prohibiting , on pain of punishment , its use for the attainment of ideal ugliness , is well known . This was no law against bunglers , as most writers , and among them even Aristophanes Plut ...
... means of arriving at ideal beauty ; and prohibiting , on pain of punishment , its use for the attainment of ideal ugliness , is well known . This was no law against bunglers , as most writers , and among them even Aristophanes Plut ...
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... means by which he can interest us in his characters . Often he neglects this means entirely , feeling certain , if his hero has once won our regard , of so pre - occupying our minds with his nobler qualities , that we shall not bestow a ...
... means by which he can interest us in his characters . Often he neglects this means entirely , feeling certain , if his hero has once won our regard , of so pre - occupying our minds with his nobler qualities , that we shall not bestow a ...
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... means of the fatal brand , would be less dramatic than a wound . This wound , moreover , was a punishment divinely decreed . It is true the more violent attacks of pain endured but for an appointed time , at the expiration of which the ...
... means of the fatal brand , would be less dramatic than a wound . This wound , moreover , was a punishment divinely decreed . It is true the more violent attacks of pain endured but for an appointed time , at the expiration of which the ...
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... means he still possessed of prolong- ing his mournful existence . O , the Frenchman who had no understanding to consider this , no heart to feel it ; or if he had , was mean enough to sacrifice it all to the wretched taste of his nation ...
... means he still possessed of prolong- ing his mournful existence . O , the Frenchman who had no understanding to consider this , no heart to feel it ; or if he had , was mean enough to sacrifice it all to the wretched taste of his nation ...
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... means of escaping from this difficulty . Pisander's poems are lost , and we can- not say with certainty what was his version of the story of Laocoon ; but it is probable that it was the same as that of which we still find traces in the ...
... means of escaping from this difficulty . Pisander's poems are lost , and we can- not say with certainty what was his version of the story of Laocoon ; but it is probable that it was the same as that of which we still find traces in the ...
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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.