Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 Seiten |
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... look forward than back- ward , less to divine what our future path may be than to compare our present position with our pre- vious course . A complete result is by supposition at present unattainable ; all we can do , therefore , is to ...
... look forward than back- ward , less to divine what our future path may be than to compare our present position with our pre- vious course . A complete result is by supposition at present unattainable ; all we can do , therefore , is to ...
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... look at you ? " asks an old epigrammatist ( 1 ) of an exceed- ingly deformed man . Many modern artists would say , " However misshapen you are , I will paint you ; and although no one could look at you with pleasure , they will look ...
... look at you ? " asks an old epigrammatist ( 1 ) of an exceed- ingly deformed man . Many modern artists would say , " However misshapen you are , I will paint you ; and although no one could look at you with pleasure , they will look ...
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... look at him ! It was a form which inspired compassion , for it displayed beauty and pain at once . It has grown into an ugly and horrible shape from which we gladly avert our eyes ; for the sight of pain excites annoyance , unless the ...
... look at him ! It was a form which inspired compassion , for it displayed beauty and pain at once . It has grown into an ugly and horrible shape from which we gladly avert our eyes ; for the sight of pain excites annoyance , unless the ...
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... look at him . Look at him oftener , and he grows from a philosopher into a fool . His laugh becomes a grin . So it is with shrieks ; the violent pain which compels their utterance soon either subsides , or destroys its suffering subject ...
... look at him . Look at him oftener , and he grows from a philosopher into a fool . His laugh becomes a grin . So it is with shrieks ; the violent pain which compels their utterance soon either subsides , or destroys its suffering subject ...
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... look into their own conduct , to pay some regard to so much misery , and to feel reluct- ance to heighten it by their treachery . This the spectator expects , and his expectations are not deceived by the noble - spirited Neoptolemus ...
... look into their own conduct , to pay some regard to so much misery , and to feel reluct- ance to heighten it by their treachery . This the spectator expects , and his expectations are not deceived by the noble - spirited Neoptolemus ...
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Achilles Æneid Æsop Agesander ancient artists Apelles appears Athenodorus attributes Bacchus beauty bodily pain body Cæsars called Caylus Chabrias CHAPTER charm contrary Craterus Dial disgusting divine effect executed expression eyes feel figure FRANVILLE fury goddess gods Greek hand Harduin Helen Hercules hero History of Art Homer horrible Ialysus idea Iliad imagination imitation kind LAMURE Laocoon latter less Lysippus Mars master means ment mentioned nature Neoptolemus never Nicias NOTE object observation Olympiad 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 sorrow speaking Spence Statius statue suffering supposed taste Thersites tion traits true ugliness Venus Vesta Virgil visible whilst whole Winkelmann wish words δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸ
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Seite 166 - 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 167 - 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 151 - 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 167 - 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 167 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Seite 140 - Di persona era tanto ben formata, quanto me' finger san pittori industri ; con bionda chioma lunga et annodata: oro non è che più risplenda e lustri. Spargeasi per la guancia delicata misto color di rose e di ligustri; di terso avorio era la fronte lieta, che lo spazio finia con giusta meta.
Seite 220 - Sollemnis taurum ingentem mactabat ad aras. Ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta (Horresco referens) immensis orbibus angues Incumbunt pelago, pariterque ad litora tendunt : Pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta, jubaeque Sanguineae exsuperant undas : pars cetera pontum Pone legit, sinuatque immensa volumine terga.
Seite 141 - 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. Bianca neve è il bel collo, e...
Seite 244 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.