Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 sider |
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Side xvi
... painter upon the same subject , they set down as faults every differ- ence they may observe , laying the blame upon the one or other , as it may happen to be the taste for poetry , or the taste for painting , which prepon- derates in ...
... painter upon the same subject , they set down as faults every differ- ence they may observe , laying the blame upon the one or other , as it may happen to be the taste for poetry , or the taste for painting , which prepon- derates in ...
Side 9
... Painter ! " although the luxurious rich man paid for his works with their weight in gold , as if to assist their intrinsic worthlessness by this imaginary value . The state itself did not deem it beneath its dignity to confine the ...
... Painter ! " although the luxurious rich man paid for his works with their weight in gold , as if to assist their intrinsic worthlessness by this imaginary value . The state itself did not deem it beneath its dignity to confine the ...
Side 16
... only make use of a single moment , and the painter es- pecially can only use this moment from one point of view , whilst their works are intended to stand the test not only of a passing glance , but of 16 LAOCOON . V.
... only make use of a single moment , and the painter es- pecially can only use this moment from one point of view , whilst their works are intended to stand the test not only of a passing glance , but of 16 LAOCOON . V.
Side 18
... painters , Timomachus seems to have delighted in selecting subjects suited to the display of extreme passion . His raving Ajax , and infanticide Medea were celebrated paintings ; but , from the descriptions we possess of them , it is ...
... painters , Timomachus seems to have delighted in selecting subjects suited to the display of extreme passion . His raving Ajax , and infanticide Medea were celebrated paintings ; but , from the descriptions we possess of them , it is ...
Side 19
... painter could have portrayed in that terrible moment itself . But , for that very reason , the irresolution of Medea , which art has made perpetual , is so far from giving offence , that we are rather inclined to wish that it could have ...
... painter could have portrayed in that terrible moment itself . But , for that very reason , the irresolution of Medea , which art has made perpetual , is so far from giving offence , that we are rather inclined to wish that it could have ...
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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.