| Joseph Spence - Aesthetics - 1752 - 56 pages
...quite unactive, and flung flat upon the Canvas (like the Faces on Medals after the Fall of the Roman Empire, or the Gothic Heads before the Revival of...Grace, that it will not even have any Life in it. The Quo motuj ? — (For fo, I think, thit Paffagefhould be read ; becaufe the Epithet of graceful, cannot... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English essays - 1761 - 366 pages
...quite unactive, and flung flat upon trie Canvas (like the Faces on Medals after the Fall of the Roman Empire, or the Gothic Heads before the Revival of..." no Grace, with Impropriety;" or, in other Words, [/] Dixit; Sc avertens rofea cervice refulfit; Ambrofixque comx divinum vertice odorem Spiravere: pedes... | |
| Philosophy - 1765 - 378 pages
...quite unactive, and flung flat upon the Canvas (like the faces on Medals after the Fall of the Roman Empire, or the Gothic Heads before the Revival of...any Life in it. The Second Obfervation is : " That therecanbe " no Grace, with Impropriety }"or, in other Words, £/ ] Dixit 5 It aver tens rofea cervice... | |
| 698 pages
...tall of the Roman empire, or the Gothic heads before the re•viv.it of the arts) will be fo far frorn having any grace, that- it will not even have any life in it. , The recond observation is : " 1>at there can be no grace, with impropriety ;" or, in. otter words, that... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...quite unaftive, and flung flat upon the canvas (like the faces on medals after the fall of the Roman empire, or the Gothic heads before the revival of...grace, that it will not even have any life in it. The fécond obfervation is, " That there can be no grace with impropriety ;" or, in other words, that nothing... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 pages
...soft and feminine ; Her graceful innocence ; her ev'ry air Of gesture, or least action. B. ix. 461. be no grace with impropriety;" or, in other words, that nothing can be graceful that is not conformable to the character and situation of the person in question. For instance, the graces of a... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 pages
...quite inactive, and laid flat upon the canvas, like the faces on medals after the fall of the Roman empire, or the Gothic heads before the revival of the arts, will be so far from having any grace, that it will not even hare the least appearance of animation. The second... | |
| Joseph Spence - Aesthetics - 1885 - 84 pages
...quite unactive, and flung flat upon the Canvas (like the Faces on Medals after the Fall of the Roman Empire, or the Gothic Heads before the Revival of the Arts) will be so far from having any Grace, that it will not even have any Life in it. " The Second Observation is... | |
| William Guild Howard - 1910 - 714 pages
...either of the whole body or of some limb, or at least of some feature. . . . The second observation is that there can be no grace with impropriety ; or,...that nothing can be graceful that is not adapted to the characters of the person" (pp. 40 ff.). " Grace has nothing to do with the lowest part of beauty,... | |
| William Guild Howard - Aesthetics - 1910 - 648 pages
...either of the whole body or of some limb, or at least of some feature. . . . The second observation is that there can be no grace with impropriety ; or,...that nothing can be graceful that is not adapted to the characters of the person" (pp. 40 ff.). " Grace has nothing to do with the lowest part of beauty,... | |
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