Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 Seiten |
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... all I want to establish is , that , among the ancients , beauty was the highest law of the plastic arts . And this once proved , it is a necessary consequence that everything else over which their range could LAOCOON . 11.
... all I want to establish is , that , among the ancients , beauty was the highest law of the plastic arts . And this once proved , it is a necessary consequence that everything else over which their range could LAOCOON . 11.
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... 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 beauty of the suffering object change that annoyance into the sweet feeling of compassion ...
... 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 beauty of the suffering object change that annoyance into the sweet feeling of compassion ...
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... once allow the wildest barbarians , though fallen beneath the sword of the conqueror , filled with affright , and seized by the terrors of death , to open their mouths and shriek.h It is certain that this softening down of extreme ...
... once allow the wildest barbarians , though fallen beneath the sword of the conqueror , filled with affright , and seized by the terrors of death , to open their mouths and shriek.h It is certain that this softening down of extreme ...
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... once won our regard , of so pre - occupying our minds with his nobler qualities , that we shall not bestow a thought upon his bodily form ; or that if we do think of it , it will be with such favourable a I have adopted this expression ...
... once won our regard , of so pre - occupying our minds with his nobler qualities , that we shall not bestow a thought upon his bodily form ; or that if we do think of it , it will be with such favourable a I have adopted this expression ...
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... once have unwound themselves from the sons . There must , therefore , have been a moment when they had already attacked the father with their heads and fore parts , while the folds of their tails still encircled his children . This ...
... once have unwound themselves from the sons . There must , therefore , have been a moment when they had already attacked the father with their heads and fore parts , while the folds of their tails still encircled his children . This ...
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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.