 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
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1886 - 304 pages
...Revenge is a kind of wild justice." " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune." " There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." Bacon's reason was illuminated by a powerful imagination, and his noble English rises now and then,... | |
 | Al Sirat society, Oakland, Calif - 1886 - 64 pages
...time in study is sloth. A king that would not find his crown too heavy for him must wear it every day. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery 1 of the stoics. He that hath wife and children... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...that of favour 8 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 life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pages
...whole days in working iipon a single part, without satisfying himself at last. 2. So says Bacon, " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of life neither. " Directly in the face of most intellectual tea-circles, it may be asserted, that no... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Character - 1889 - 216 pages
...together with a suggestion of something beyond. " That is the best part of beauty," says Lord Bacon, "which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life." It is, in fact, our ability to conceive that which is beyond the immediate representation given to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 460 pages
...that of favour0 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 or 2° Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one • Virtue] ie excellence of any violl with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 300 pages
...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...the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles* 1 For the most part. 2 Feature. 8 Not Apelles, but Zeuxis. or Albert Dtirer were the more trifler ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 pages
...that of favour 2 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 life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell... | |
 | Delbert D. Thiessen - Social Science - 170 pages
...men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be more alike. Thomas Brown British physician There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon English philosopher You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the... | |
 | Gary William Flake - Computers - 2000 - 524 pages
...I. (1990). Does God play dice?: The mathematics of chaos. Oxford: Blackwell. 1 1 Strange Attractors There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions. — Francis Bacon / am strangely attracted to you. — Cole Porter I N THIS CHAPTER we... | |
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