Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 Seiten |
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... say , speaking of nature , from fact to fact ) toward the distant summit whence the whole subject is to become visible . It is its natural tendency when any new station is gained to be occupied with the novelty of its actual position or ...
... say , speaking of nature , from fact to fact ) toward the distant summit whence the whole subject is to become visible . It is its natural tendency when any new station is gained to be occupied with the novelty of its actual position or ...
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... say they , that the one is entitled to , should be conceded to the other ; everything that pleases or displeases in the one is necessarily pleasing or displeasing in the other . Full of this idea , they constantly give utterance to the ...
... say they , that the one is entitled to , should be conceded to the other ; everything that pleases or displeases in the one is necessarily pleasing or displeasing in the other . Full of this idea , they constantly give utterance to the ...
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... says he , " the " depths of the sea always remain calm , however " much the surface may be raging , so the expression " in the figures of the Greeks , under every form of " passion , shows a great and self - collected soul . " This ...
... says he , " the " depths of the sea always remain calm , however " much the surface may be raging , so the expression " in the figures of the Greeks , under every form of " passion , shows a great and self - collected soul . " This ...
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... say the critics , that the ancients took little pains to preserve an uniformity of length in the different acts . I quite agree with them , but I should rather ground my opinion upon other examples than this . The sorrowful exclamations ...
... say the critics , that the ancients took little pains to preserve an uniformity of length in the different acts . I quite agree with them , but I should rather ground my opinion upon other examples than this . The sorrowful exclamations ...
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... says Dacier , because he feared the effect would be too softening , and that on the morrow they would go with less courage to the battle . True ! But why , I ask , should Priam only fear this result ? Why does not Agamemnon also lay the ...
... says Dacier , because he feared the effect would be too softening , and that on the morrow they would go with less courage to the battle . True ! But why , I ask , should Priam only fear this result ? Why does not Agamemnon also lay the ...
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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.