 | English literature - 1766 - 520 pages
...brought fuch a concourie of ftrangers of ojd to the little town of Thefpia:. I cannot help thinking lha; there is no beauty in the features of Venus, and that...the antients and we differ in the ideas of beauty. "Stye know the contrary, from their medals, bufts, and hiftorians. Without all doubt, the limbs and... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1776 - 304 pages
...called De Medicis, which was found at Tivoli, and is kept in a feparate apartment called The Tribuna. I cannot help thinking that there is no beauty in the features of Venus ; and that the attitude is awkward and out of character. Without all doubt the limbs and proportions of this ftatue are elegantly... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 592 pages
...Cupid by Praxiteles, which brought fuch a concourfe of ftrangers of old to the little town of Thefpise. I cannot help thinking that there is no beauty in the features of Ve» nus ; and that the attitude is aukward and out of character. It is a bad plea to urge that the... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 600 pages
...by Praxiteles, which brought fuch a concourfe of ftrangers of old to the little town of Thefp'ise. I cannot help thinking that there is no beauty in the features of Venus ; and that the attitude is awkward and out of character. It is a bad plea to urge, that the ancients and we differ in the ideas... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 380 pages
...Cupid by Praxiteles, which brought such a concourse of strangers of old to the little town of Thespias. I cannot help thinking that there is no beauty in the features of Venus ; and that the attitude is awkward and out of character. It is a bad plea to urge that the antients and we differ in the ideas... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 748 pages
...enthusiastic admiration with which others are inspired at sight of this statue. I cannot help thinking there is no beauty in the features of Venus, and that the attitude is awkward and out of character. * — I was much disappointed at sight of the Pantheon, which, after... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 414 pages
...at Tivoli, and is kept in a separate apartment called the Tribuna, I believe I ought to be entirely silent, or at least conceal my real sentiments, which...in the features of Venus; and that the attitude is awkward and out of character. It is a bad plea to urge, that the ancients and we differ in the ideas... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 1048 pages
...enthusiastic admiration with which others are inspired at the sight of this statue. I cannot help thinking there is no beauty in the features of Venus, and that the attitude is awkward and out of character." — Letter XXVII. " I was much disappointed at sight of the Pantheon,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - France - 1919 - 440 pages
...Cupid by Praxiteles, which brought such a concourse of strangers of old to the little town of Thespise. I cannot help thinking that there is no beauty in...urge that the antients and we differ in the ideas of heauty. We know the contrary, from their medals, busts, and historians. Without all doubt, the limbs... | |
 | Aileen Douglas - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 244 pages
...Sterne's parody is made all the more pointed by the fact that Smollett's Travels do contain an epis9. "I cannot help thinking that there is no beauty in...that the attitude is aukward and out of character . . . Without all doubt, the limbs and proportions of this stature are elegantly formed, and accurately... | |
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I ought to be entirely silent, or at least conceal my real sentiments, which will otherwise appear equally absurd and presumptuous. It must be want of taste that prevents my feeling that enthusiastic admiration with which others are inspired at sight... 
