 ... faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them ; not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope - Page 137by Joseph Warton - 1772 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...belt Parts out of divers Faces to make one excellent. Such Perfonages I think would pleafe no body, but the Painter that made them. Not but I think a...Felicity, ( as a Mufician that maketh an excellent Air in Mufick ) and not by Rule. A Man fhall fee Faces, that if you examine them part by part, you... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...Piftures, I think, would pleafe no Body, but the Painter that made them. Not but that I think a 27® EAUTY. a Painter may make a better .Face than ever was: But he muft do it by a kind of Felicity or Chance,, (as a Mufician that maketh an excellent Air in Mufick) and not by Rule. A Man fhall fee... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...treatife entitled, Delia Ragion Poetica. In Napoli; 1716, pag. 249, 250. •j- Ver. 141. proportions; proportions ; the other, by taking the beft parts...was ; but he muft do it by a kind of felicity, as a mufkian that maketh an excellent ayre in mufic, and not by rule. A man fhall fee faces, that if you... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apellcs, or Abel Durer, were the more trificr ; whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical...of felicity, as a mufician that maketh an excellent air in mufic, and not by rule. A man mall fee faces, that if you examine them, part by part, you fhall... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 444 pages
...taking the beft parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such perfonages, I think, would plcaie nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think, a pamter ir.ay make a better face than ever was ; but he muft do it by a kind of felicity, as a mufician... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...make a perfonage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the bed parts out of divers facet to make one excellent. Such perfonages, I think, would...of felicity, as a mufician that maketh an excellent air in mufic, and not by rule. A man (hall fee faces, that if you examine them, part by part, you (hall... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...make a perfonage by ~geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the beft parts out of divers facci to make one excellent. Such perfonages, I think, would...of felicity, as a mufician that maketh an excellent air in mufic, and not by rule. A man mall fee faces, that if you examine them, part by part, you fhall... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please no body but the painter that made them: not but I think a...painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,) and not by... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please no body but the painter that made them ; not but I think a...painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,) and not by... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such personages I think would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I...painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and not by... | |
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