Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 sider |
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Side xi
... wish , however , to enter into no comparisons : either has been a true and able labourer in this field , and we must be grateful to both . A due regard to the results which both have elicited is our present wisdom as tending to keep our ...
... wish , however , to enter into no comparisons : either has been a true and able labourer in this field , and we must be grateful to both . A due regard to the results which both have elicited is our present wisdom as tending to keep our ...
Side xvii
... wish , in the most beautiful order , from a couple of adopted explanations of words , we are the most complete adepts , the equals any nation in the world . of Baumgarten acknowledged that he was indebted to Gesner's Dictionary for a ...
... wish , in the most beautiful order , from a couple of adopted explanations of words , we are the most complete adepts , the equals any nation in the world . of Baumgarten acknowledged that he was indebted to Gesner's Dictionary for a ...
Side 2
... wish that we could endure misery " like that great man . " The expressing of so great a soul is far higher " than the painting of beautiful nature . The artist " must feel within himself that strength of spirit " which he would imprint ...
... wish that we could endure misery " like that great man . " The expressing of so great a soul is far higher " than the painting of beautiful nature . The artist " must feel within himself that strength of spirit " which he would imprint ...
Side 6
... wishes to teach us that the civilized Greek could be brave at the same time that he wept , while in the uncivilized Trojan all human feelings were to be previously stifled . Νεμέσσωμαί γε μεν ovdev zλáv , is the remark which , elsewhere ...
... wishes to teach us that the civilized Greek could be brave at the same time that he wept , while in the uncivilized Trojan all human feelings were to be previously stifled . Νεμέσσωμαί γε μεν ovdev zλáv , is the remark which , elsewhere ...
Side 19
... wish that it could have remained the same in nature , that the contest of passions had never been decided , or , at least , had continued so long that time and reflection had gained the mastery over fury , and assured the victory to the ...
... wish that it could have remained the same in nature , that the contest of passions had never been decided , or , at least , had continued so long that time and reflection had gained the mastery over fury , and assured the victory to the ...
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Achilles Æneid Æsop Agesander ancient artists Apelles appears Athenodorus attributes Bacchus beauty bodily pain body Cæsars called Caylus Chabrias CHAPTER charm contrary Craterus Dial disgusting divine effect executed expression eyes feel figure FRANVILLE fury goddess gods Greek hand Harduin Helen Hercules hero History of Art Homer horrible Ialysus idea Iliad imagination imitation kind LAMURE Laocoon latter less Lysippus Mars master means ment mentioned nature Neoptolemus never Nicias NOTE object observation Olympiad Ovid painter painting passage Pausanias Phidias Philoctetes picture piece pleasure Pliny poet poetical poetry Polydorus Polygnotus Polymetis produce Pythodorus quæ reason render representation represented Roman says sculptors sensations serpents shew shield shriek single Sophocles sorrow speaking Spence Statius statue suffering supposed taste Thersites tion traits true ugliness Venus Vesta Virgil visible whilst whole Winkelmann wish words δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸ
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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.