 That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.  Bacon's Essays - Page 45by Francis Bacon - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...beauty, that of favour is more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a...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 by part,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...uncommon. 2 Here decent and gracious are becoming awl graceful. a picture cannot express ; no, nor tho first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty...hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man caunot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more8 trifler; whereof the one would make a personage... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 pages
...in a Court of Chancery, as Fortune is. Newton. He is inconsequent in his reasoning when he says, " There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man can not tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler, whereof the one would make a personage... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - English literature - 1876 - 562 pages
...out of divers faces to make one excellent." Barrow. Whereof is of which, not of whom. Newton. If " there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion," then Apelles was no trifler in taking the best parts of divers faces, which would produce some strangeness... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 412 pages
...father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury." Sclxrptnhauer. "That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express." Bacon. a Booto/Dayi. beaten oil for the light a 1 Jo. ii. 20 ; Pa. cxix. 106; .Mn v. 16. 6 Ex. ixvi.... | |
 | Valentine Durrant - 1877 - 560 pages
...hot wall without;" and would think his beauty-quest at least had the moral of Bacon's words, — " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express." Yet the picture was passing fair, as she would sit between him and the open window, looking upon the... | |
 | Quite - Young men - 1878 - 90 pages
...more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour," and " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life."—And why is that ? but that beauty of mind is able to compensate for, if not to overcome, the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 pages
...that of favour 6 is more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of Beauty, which...picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life.7 There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...that of favour 6 is more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of Beauty, which...picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life.7 There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...that of favour is more than that of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that he gospel ; but servants being commanded to go, shall stand still till they have their errand warrante life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell... | |
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