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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. "
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon - Page 305
by Francis Bacon - 1890 - 405 pages
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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 ; 6 " pulehrorum autumnus...
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Scribners Monthly, Volume 20

Literature - 1880 - 996 pages
...and his inability to persuade others that he is not mistaken. Bacon's wise saying, " Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was, but...maketh an excellent air in music) and not by rule," should perhaps be remembered chiefly by painters who have no suspicion that they possess "a kind of...
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The Essays of Lord Bacon: With Critical and Illustrative Notes ...

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...excellent.4 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...it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh prima pars vitae quam postrema fuit : ' the first part of his life was more distinguished than the...
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them : not but I think ! In another of his works, Raleigh tells, in the following...They say the goodliest cedars which grow on the high certainly it is no marvel though persons in years seem many times more amiable ; pulchrorum autumnus...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 2

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. 25 Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was, but...part by part, you shall find never a good, and yet 30 all togetherdo wel1. If it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 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...shall see faces that, if you examine them part by partj you shall find never a good ; and yet all together do well. If it be true that the principal...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. LORD BACON : Essay XL IV., Of Beauty. A man shall see faces that, if you examine them part...the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel though persons in years seem many limes more amiable : " pulchorum antumnus...
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The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Imaginary conversations. Third ...

Walter Savage Landor - English literature - 1876 - 562 pages
...continues to remark, " I think would please nobody but the painter who made them : not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but...maketh an excellent air in music), and not by rule." Nothing of excellent is to be done by felicity. Barrow. Felicity and Excellence rarely meet, and hardly...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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...faces, that if you examine them part by part, you shall never find a good ; and yet altogether do well. If it be true, that the principal part of beauty is...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and religious works

Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 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, 8 (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,) and not by rule. A man shall see faces, that...
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