An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and Modern |
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The Belvedere Apollo , and the daughter of Niobe , are the standards of beauty ;
what energy , what a divine expression is there in the one ? what distress , what
an affecting sensibility in the other ? There are few expressions ( if we except ...
The Belvedere Apollo , and the daughter of Niobe , are the standards of beauty ;
what energy , what a divine expression is there in the one ? what distress , what
an affecting sensibility in the other ? There are few expressions ( if we except ...
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his mildness ; and Agamemnon , by a “ kind of divine majesty ; in the son of 6 .
Tydeus , is expressed an air of freedom ; “ Ajax is known by his fullen fierceness ;
66 and Antilochus by his alertness . " To give to these such sentiinents and ...
his mildness ; and Agamemnon , by a “ kind of divine majesty ; in the son of 6 .
Tydeus , is expressed an air of freedom ; “ Ajax is known by his fullen fierceness ;
66 and Antilochus by his alertness . " To give to these such sentiinents and ...
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odorus Siculus , [ f ] for having transfused into marble all the passions of the soul ;
the same power is attributed by Pliny to the pencil of Aristides ; it is not probable ,
that men of taste and letters , whilst they were eye - witnesses of the divine ...
odorus Siculus , [ f ] for having transfused into marble all the passions of the soul ;
the same power is attributed by Pliny to the pencil of Aristides ; it is not probable ,
that men of taste and letters , whilst they were eye - witnesses of the divine ...
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Such symptoms of caducity do not suit with the divine nature ; if he is to be
represented , it must be , by a sublime idea , a character of majesty more than
human ; such as was imagined by Homer , and executed by Phidias . B .
PLUTARCH B ...
Such symptoms of caducity do not suit with the divine nature ; if he is to be
represented , it must be , by a sublime idea , a character of majesty more than
human ; such as was imagined by Homer , and executed by Phidias . B .
PLUTARCH B ...
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... or air breathing a divine fragrance . Dryden has marked the advanvantage of
this coalition of the senses . The hearing gave new pleafüre to the fight , • Ard
both to thought . Milton has infinuated the same in the following words ,
addressed by ...
... or air breathing a divine fragrance . Dryden has marked the advanvantage of
this coalition of the senses . The hearing gave new pleafüre to the fight , • Ard
both to thought . Milton has infinuated the same in the following words ,
addressed by ...
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Page 45 - In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Page 41 - And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
Page 110 - Hence, bashful cunning; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
Page 15 - The infernal Serpent ! he it was, whose guile, Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven...
Page 21 - Farewell, happy fields, Where joy forever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor: one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 43 - The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious' war ! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats Th' immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 23 - Of heav'nly pow'rs were touch'd with human fate! But go! thy flight no longer I detain — Go! seek thy promis'd kingdom through the main!
Page 55 - The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not; the flat sea shines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor 'Of some old temple wide.
Page 77 - You may shape, Amintor, Causes to cozen the whole world withal, And yourself too ; but 'tis not like a friend To hide your soul from me-. 'Tis not your nature To be thus idle : I have seen you stand As you were blasted 'midst of all your mirth ; Call thrice aloud, and then start, feigning joy So coldly ! — World, what do I here ? a friend Is nothing.
Page 123 - In thefe principles, and in the examples by which they have been fupported, we fee clearly the reafon why every enlightened age has had, and muft continue to have, its original Writers. We have no right, therefore, to complain that nature is always the fame, or that the fources of novelty have been exhaufted. It is in Poetry as in Philofophy, new relations are ftruck out, new influences difcovered, and every fuperior genius moves in a world of his own.