Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 Seiten |
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... wish , however , to enter into no comparisons : either has been a true and able labourer in this field , and we must be grateful to both . A due regard to the results which both have elicited is our present wisdom as tending to keep our ...
... wish , however , to enter into no comparisons : either has been a true and able labourer in this field , and we must be grateful to both . A due regard to the results which both have elicited is our present wisdom as tending to keep our ...
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... wish , in the most beautiful order , from a couple of adopted explanations of words , we are the most complete adepts , the equals any nation in the world . of Baumgarten acknowledged that he was indebted to Gesner's Dictionary for a ...
... wish , in the most beautiful order , from a couple of adopted explanations of words , we are the most complete adepts , the equals any nation in the world . of Baumgarten acknowledged that he was indebted to Gesner's Dictionary for a ...
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... wish that we could endure misery " like that great man . ' The expressing of so great a soul is far higher " than the painting of beautiful nature . The artist " must feel within himself that strength of spirit " which he would imprint ...
... wish that we could endure misery " like that great man . ' The expressing of so great a soul is far higher " than the painting of beautiful nature . The artist " must feel within himself that strength of spirit " which he would imprint ...
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... wishes to teach us that the civilized Greek could be brave at the same time that he wept , while in the uncivilized Trojan all human feelings were to be previously stifled . Νεμέσσωμαί γε μεν ovdev xλázev , is the remark which ...
... wishes to teach us that the civilized Greek could be brave at the same time that he wept , while in the uncivilized Trojan all human feelings were to be previously stifled . Νεμέσσωμαί γε μεν ovdev xλázev , is the remark which ...
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... wish that it could have remained the same in nature , that the contest of passions had never been decided , or , at least , had continued so long that time and reflection had gained the mastery over fury , and assured the victory to the ...
... wish that it could have remained the same in nature , that the contest of passions had never been decided , or , at least , had continued so long that time and reflection had gained the mastery over fury , and assured the victory to the ...
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according actions actually allow already ancient appears artist attributes authors beauty become believe bodily body called CHAPTER complete considered contrary critics describes disgusting draw effect entirely example executed expression eyes feel figure former fury give gods Greek ground hand Homer human idea Iliad imagination imitation intended kind Laocoon latter least less lines look Lysippus Mars master material means mentioned merely nature never NOTE object observation once opinion pain painter painting pass passage perhaps Philoctetes picture piece pleasure Pliny poet poetry possible present probability produce prove reason remarks render representation represented Roman says seems seen serpents shield shriek single Sophocles sorrow speaking Spence statue suffering supposed taste thing tion true ugliness Virgil visible whole Winkelmann wish δὲ καὶ
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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.