Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 sider |
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Side vii
... reason and his passion ) to bring the balance far down in the latter direction : the more need therefore to bring forward an older writer , whose learning is as decidedly , though less vehe- mently , the other way . There is a use ...
... reason and his passion ) to bring the balance far down in the latter direction : the more need therefore to bring forward an older writer , whose learning is as decidedly , though less vehe- mently , the other way . There is a use ...
Side 7
... shriek in marble . Another reason therefore must be found for his here deviating from his rival , the poet , who has expressed it with the happiest results . i Chataubrun . CHAPTER II . BE it fable or history , that LAOCOON . 7.
... shriek in marble . Another reason therefore must be found for his here deviating from his rival , the poet , who has expressed it with the happiest results . i Chataubrun . CHAPTER II . BE it fable or history , that LAOCOON . 7.
Side 11
... reason why the adulterous phantasy should always have been a serpent . : But I am digressing ; all I want to establish is , that , among the ancients , beauty was the highest law of the plastic arts . And this once proved , it is a ...
... reason why the adulterous phantasy should always have been a serpent . : But I am digressing ; all I want to establish is , that , among the ancients , beauty was the highest law of the plastic arts . And this once proved , it is a ...
Side 19
... 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 remained the same in nature , that the contest of passions had never been decided ...
... 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 remained the same in nature , that the contest of passions had never been decided ...
Side 20
... , which he himself feels at the thoughts of it . We see the storm in the wrecks and corpses with which it has strewn the beach . b Vita Apoll . Lib . II . Cap . xxii . CHAPTER IV . I have passed under review the reasons 20 LAOCOON .
... , which he himself feels at the thoughts of it . We see the storm in the wrecks and corpses with which it has strewn the beach . b Vita Apoll . Lib . II . Cap . xxii . CHAPTER IV . I have passed under review the reasons 20 LAOCOON .
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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.