 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...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 4, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,) and not by rule. A man shall see faces, that... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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...the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel, though persons in years seem many times more amiable ; " pulchrorum autumnus... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...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,3 (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,) and not by rule. A man shall see... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but ///.- painter that made them. Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but...the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel though persons in years seem many times more amiable." Understanding that... | |
 | Roses - Gift books - 1867 - 172 pages
...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...the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel, though persons in years seem many times more amiable ; pulchrorum anlumnus... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...person- [7] ages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them : not but that I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but...felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air [8] in music,) and not by rule. A man shall see faces, that, if you examine them part by part, you... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...the dumbness of the gesture One might interpret. [If he were a good " interpreter of nature " : and " if it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion." — Esiag.] Paint. It is a pretty mockjng of the life. Here is a touch; Is 't good? Poet. I 'll say... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...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...the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel" though persons in years seem many times more amiable : ' Pulchrorum autumnus... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...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...and yet altogether do well. If it be true that the principalpart of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel2 though persons in years seem... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 472 pages
...But he must doe it, by a kinde of Felicity, (As a Musician that maketh an excellent Ayre in Musicke) And not by Rule. A Man shall see Faces, that if you examine them, Part by Part, you shall finde never a good; And yet all together doe well. If it be true, that the Principall Part of Beauty,... | |
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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 rule. 
