Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and PoetryRoberts brothers, 1874 - 245 Seiten |
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Laocoon: An Essay upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,Ellen Frothingham Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2013 |
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Seite 139 - 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 moon-shines 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?
Seite 140 - But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph ; 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, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Seite 140 - 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, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Seite 118 - 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 140 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, 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 118 - E ch'indi tutta la faretra scarchi, E che visibilmente i cori involi: Quindi il naso, per mezzo il viso scende Che non trova l'invidia, ove l'emende. 13. Sotto quel sta, quasi fra due vallette, La bocca sparsa di natio cinabro...
Seite 109 - Meanwhile a multitude Was in the forum, where a strife went on, — Two men contending for a fine, the price Of one who had been slain. Before the crowd One claimed that he had paid the fine, and one Denied that aught had been received, and both Called for the sentence which should end the strife.
Seite 117 - Like milk the bosom and the neck like snow; Round is the neck, and full and large the breast ; Where, fresh and firm, two ivory apples grow, Which rise and fall, as, to the margin pressed By pleasant breeze, the billows come and go, Not prying Argus could discern the rest. Yet might the observing eye of things concealed Conjecture safely, from the charms revealed. To all her arms a just proportion bear, And a white hand is oftentimes descried Which narrow is, and some deal long; and where No knot...
Seite 117 - As if between two vales, which softly curl, The mouth with vermeil tint is seen to glow : Within are strung two rows of orient pearl, Which her delicious lips shut up or show. Of force to melt the heart of any churl, However rude, hence courteous accents flow ; And here that gentle smile receives its birth, Which opes at will a paradise on earth.
Seite 1 - ... inevitable influence which they exercise on the character of a nation, have power to work one effect which demands the careful attention of the law. Beautiful statues fashioned from beautiful men reacted upon their creators, and the state was indebted for its beautiful 1 Plinius, lib. xxxiv. sect. 9. •J men to beautiful statues. With us the susceptible imagination of the mother seems to express itself only in monsters.