Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 sider |
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Side 15
... Pliny , so mani- festly either interpolated or mutilated , that it ought not to have awaited my amendment ( 6 ) . h Bellorii Admiranda , Tab . 11 , 12 , i Plinius , xxxiv . 19. 36 . CHAPTER III . " Its BUT , as has been LAOCOON . 15.
... Pliny , so mani- festly either interpolated or mutilated , that it ought not to have awaited my amendment ( 6 ) . h Bellorii Admiranda , Tab . 11 , 12 , i Plinius , xxxiv . 19. 36 . CHAPTER III . " Its BUT , as has been LAOCOON . 15.
Side 71
... Pliny mentions one , in a sitting pos- ture , from the hand of Scopas , which , in his time , might be seen in the Servilian garden , at Rome ( 28 ) . And , allowing that it is not easy for us to dis- tinguish a mere Vestal priestess ...
... Pliny mentions one , in a sitting pos- ture , from the hand of Scopas , which , in his time , might be seen in the Servilian garden , at Rome ( 28 ) . And , allowing that it is not easy for us to dis- tinguish a mere Vestal priestess ...
Side 83
... Pliny , " et quadam artis libido . " Too great a buoyancy of spirits ( as it were ) in art , and a kind of craving after the curious and unknown , impelled him towards an entirely different class of subjects . He chose rather to paint ...
... Pliny , " et quadam artis libido . " Too great a buoyancy of spirits ( as it were ) in art , and a kind of craving after the curious and unknown , impelled him towards an entirely different class of subjects . He chose rather to paint ...
Side 135
... Pliny and other writers , but is grounded upon the decisive proof , afforded by the works of art enumerated by the ancients , that , many centuries later , art had not advanced much far- ther , and that the paintings of a Polygnotus ...
... Pliny and other writers , but is grounded upon the decisive proof , afforded by the works of art enumerated by the ancients , that , many centuries later , art had not advanced much far- ther , and that the paintings of a Polygnotus ...
Side 157
... Pliny , in which this last is spoken of , stands in need of an emendation ( 47 ) . The ancient artists do not appear to have had any taste for painting actions taken from Homer , simply because they offer a rich composition , distinct ...
... Pliny , in which this last is spoken of , stands in need of an emendation ( 47 ) . The ancient artists do not appear to have had any taste for painting actions taken from Homer , simply because they offer a rich composition , distinct ...
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Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 51 - Bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum Terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.