Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry. With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient ArtRoberts Brothers, 1880 - 250 Seiten |
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Achilles admirable Æneas Æneid Æsop Agesander ancients Apelles Apollo appears Appendix arrow Athenodorus Bacchus beauty bodily pain body called Caylus Chabrias cloud Constantinus Manasses copy Craterus critic deities dial disgust effect expression eyes feel figure Franville furies give goddess gods Greek hand Helen Hercules Homer horns idea Iliad imagination imitation inscription Jupiter Lamure Laocoon less Lysippus marble Mars masters means Meleager Minerva nature Neoptolemus never Nicias object old artists Olympiad Ovid painter painting passage Pausanias Phidias Philoctetes Pliny poem poet poet's poetic picture poetry Polydectes Polydorus Polygnotus Polymetis produce Pythodorus quæ regard representations represented Roman says sceptre screaming sculptors sect seems serpents shield single Sophocles speaking Spence Statius statue suffering supposed taste Thersites thing tion translation ugliness Venus Vesta Virgil visible Vulcan whole Winkelmann words αὐτὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τὸ
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Seite 151 - 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 152 - I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, 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 152 - 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? With baseness?
Seite 152 - 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 200 - Cast on the wildest of the Cyclad isles Where never human foot had marked the shore, These Ruffians left me — yet believe me, Areas, Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All ruffians as they were, I never heard A sound so dismal as their parting oars.
Seite 203 - Fit sonitus spumante salo; iamque arva tenebant ardentesque oculos suffecti sanguine et igni 210 sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora. Diffugimus visu exsangues. Illi agmine certo Laocoonta petunt : et primum parva duorum corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque implicat...
Seite 129 - 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. 8 Sotto duo negri e sottilissimi archi son duo negri occhi, anzi duo chiari soli, pietosi a riguardare, a mover parchi; intorno cui par ch'Amor scherzi e voli, e ch...
Seite 173 - Nee multo plurium fama est, quorundam claritati in operibus eximiis obstante numero artificum, quoniam nee unus occupat gloriam, nee plures pariter nuncupari possunt, sicut in Laocoonte, qui est in Titi Imperatoris domo, opus omnibus et picturae et statuariae artis praeponendum. Ex uno lapide eum et liberos draconumque mirabiles nexus de consilii sententia fecere summi artifices, Agesander et "Polydorus et Athenodorus Rhodii.
Seite 130 - 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 119 - 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.