 | English essays - 1881 - 578 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 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 - 1882 - 324 pages
...excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. as 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... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1883 - 460 pages
...nobody but the painter who made them : not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was j but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 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 kiud of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,) and not by rule. A man shall... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 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 - 1883 - 236 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...that maketh an excellent air in music), and not by ruie. A man shall see faces, that, if you examine them part by part, you shall find never a good; and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 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 - 1884 - 476 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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...part by part, you shall find never a good, and yet all together do well. If it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly... | |
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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. 
