 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
 | Alice Crowther - 1883 - 174 pages
...— Burhe. Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. —Zimmerman. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. — Bacon. To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire, of beauty. — Steels. Beauty... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...As morning roses newly washed with dew. How goodness heightens beauty ! Beauty lives with kindness. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. . . . Beauty depends more upon the movement of the face than upon the form of the features when at... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...that of favour 1 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...the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles 5 or Albert Durer 3 were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 pages
...is more than that of color ; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that \ of favor.2 L That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the lifQ/j There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot... | |
 | Royal cabinet birthday book - 1884 - 260 pages
...wilderness. — Butler. One bad example spoils many precepts. 9 — • Put a stout heart to a steep hill. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. — Bacon. Opportunities neglected are irrecoverable. Put no faith in tale-bearers. 8 Put the saddle... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...that of Favour,9 is more than that of Colour, And that of Decent and Gracious Motion,19 more than that of Favour. That is the best part of Beauty, which a picture cannot expresse; No, nor the first Sight of the Life.11 Thero is no Excellent Beauty, that hath not some Strangenesse... | |
 | Oxford univ, local exams - 1885 - 358 pages
...cat in the pan. (5) As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it. (6) There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. 6. Write a short Essay in the manner of Bacon on one of the following subjects:—of Faithfulness to... | |
 | James Edward Singleton - 1885 - 146 pages
...fragrant beauties create. They possess an indefinable charm which the most artistic counterfeits lack, " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express." Bacon. and which a child even, though unable to specify, is nevertheless capable of appreciating. Considering... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American prose literature - 1886 - 456 pages
...of favor is more than that of color; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favor. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot...strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Appelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof one would make a personage by geometrical proportions;... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1886 - 432 pages
...of favour. That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; nor the first sight of life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some...strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apellcs or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical... | |
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