Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 sider |
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Side vii
... a writer of the former school , greater than the mere momentary dressing of a balance , never fated to maintain more than a momentary equilibrium . These variations , referring as they do to permanent distinc- tions I.
... a writer of the former school , greater than the mere momentary dressing of a balance , never fated to maintain more than a momentary equilibrium . These variations , referring as they do to permanent distinc- tions I.
Side x
... mere observer less to look forward than back- ward , less to divine what our future path may be than to compare our present position with our pre- vious course . A complete result is by supposition at present unattainable ; all we can ...
... mere observer less to look forward than back- ward , less to divine what our future path may be than to compare our present position with our pre- vious course . A complete result is by supposition at present unattainable ; all we can ...
Side xv
... merely because we have changed their paths into highways ; although by this very change , the highways , in spite of being shorter and safer , are again contracted into paths , as little trodden as though they led through deserts . It ...
... merely because we have changed their paths into highways ; although by this very change , the highways , in spite of being shorter and safer , are again contracted into paths , as little trodden as though they led through deserts . It ...
Side 4
... merely scratched , shriek aloud ; not that he may thereby paint the effeminacy of the goddess of pleasure , but rather that he may give suffering nature her due ; for even the iron Mars , when he feels the lance of Diomede , shricks so ...
... merely scratched , shriek aloud ; not that he may thereby paint the effeminacy of the goddess of pleasure , but rather that he may give suffering nature her due ; for even the iron Mars , when he feels the lance of Diomede , shricks so ...
Side 8
... mere cold pleasure which arises from a striking resemblance , or the consideration of an artist's ability . In his art nothing was dearer , nothing seemed nobler to him than its proper end . " Who would paint you when nobody will look ...
... mere cold pleasure which arises from a striking resemblance , or the consideration of an artist's ability . In his art nothing was dearer , nothing seemed nobler to him than its proper end . " Who would paint you when nobody will look ...
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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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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.