 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1884 - 722 pages
...personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them — not but I think a painter maj make a better face than ever was, but he must do it...part by part you shall find never a good, and yet altogetler do well. If it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 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...excellent air in music), and not by rule. A man shall sec faces, that, if you examine them part by part, you shall find never a good, and yet altogether... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 234 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...must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that makelh an excellent air in music), and not by rule. A man shall see faces, that, if you examine them... | |
 | Charles Henry Miller - Aesthetics - 1885 - 152 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 (as a musician who makes an excellent air in music), and not by rule. A man shall see faces, that if you. examine... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 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...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 in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that...makelh an excellent air in music), and not by rule. A makelh an excellent air in music), and not by rule. A man shall see faces, that, if you examine them... | |
 | Henry Naegely - 1902 - 238 pages
...figures on scientific principles, that they are ' triflers,' and, he goes on to say, ' Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was, but he must do it by a kind of felicity, not by rule.' This felicity is but another name for that ever-alert, everattentive imagination of which... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 468 pages
...the dolors of death. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A painter may make a better face than ever was ; but...maketh an excellent air in music) and not by rule. These latter remarks prove Bacon's insight into aesthetics to have been no less than his insight into... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 466 pages
...the dolors of death. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A painter may make a better face than ever was ; but...maketh an excellent air in music) and not by rule. These latter remarks prove Bacon's insight into aesthetics to have been no less than his insight into... | |
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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. 
