Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry. With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art |
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... shield of Æneas , his imitation of the artist who made the shield is of the former kind . The work of art , not what it repre- sents , is his model . Even if he describe the devices upon it they are described as part of the shield , not ...
... shield of Æneas , his imitation of the artist who made the shield is of the former kind . The work of art , not what it repre- sents , is his model . Even if he describe the devices upon it they are described as part of the shield , not ...
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... shields in the same hovering attitude that Addison thought he saw him in with Rhea on an ancient coin , 2 and that Juvenal had such a helmet or shield in mind in that allusion of his which , till Addison , had been a puzzle to all ...
... shields in the same hovering attitude that Addison thought he saw him in with Rhea on an ancient coin , 2 and that Juvenal had such a helmet or shield in mind in that allusion of his which , till Addison , had been a puzzle to all ...
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... shield of Æneas , his imitation of the artist who made the shield is of the former kind . The work of art , not what it repre- sents , is his model . Even if he describe the devices upon it they are described as part of the shield , not ...
... shield of Æneas , his imitation of the artist who made the shield is of the former kind . The work of art , not what it repre- sents , is his model . Even if he describe the devices upon it they are described as part of the shield , not ...
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... shields in the same hovering attitude that Addison thought he saw him in with Rhea on an ancient coin , 2 and that Juvenal had such a helmet or shield in mind in that allusion of his which , till Addison , had been a puzzle to all ...
... shields in the same hovering attitude that Addison thought he saw him in with Rhea on an ancient coin , 2 and that Juvenal had such a helmet or shield in mind in that allusion of his which , till Addison , had been a puzzle to all ...
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... shield of Achilles to have an in- stance of how circumstantially and yet poetically a single object can be described according to its co- existent parts . I will proceed to answer this double objection . I call it double , because a ...
... shield of Achilles to have an in- stance of how circumstantially and yet poetically a single object can be described according to its co- existent parts . I will proceed to answer this double objection . I call it double , because a ...
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ABBOTT Achilles admirable Æneas Æneid Æsop Agesander ancients Apelles appears Appendix Athenodorus Bacchus beauty bodily pain body called Caylus Chabrias coils concealed copy Craterus critics degree described dial disgust edit effect English expression father figure furies give goddess gods grammar Greek hand Homer horns Ialysus idea Iliad imagination imitation inscription Laocoon less Lysippus marble Mars masters means Meleager nature Neoptolemus never Nicias object old artists Olympiad Ovid painter painting passage Pausanias Phidias Philoctetes Pliny poem poet poet's poetic picture poetry Polydectes Polydorus Polygnotus Polymetis produce prove Pythodorus quæ regard representations represented Roman says scream sculptor sect seems serpents shield single Sophocles speaking Spence Statius statue suffering supposed Terga Thersites thing tion traits ugliness Venus Vesta Virgil Virgil's Laocoon visible whole Winkelmann words writing δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τὸ
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Page 131 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base?
Page 132 - But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph ; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 132 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 132 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace...
Page 180 - Cast on the wildest of the Cyclad Isles, Where never human foot had mark'd the shore, These ruffians left me — Yet believe me, Areas, Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All ruffians as they were, I never heard A sound so dismal as their parting oars.
Page 109 - Like milk the bosom, and the neck of snow ; Round is the neck, and full and large the breast; Where, fresh and firm, two ivory apples grow, Which rise and fall, as, to the margin pressed By pleasant breeze, the billows come and go. Not prying Argus could discern the rest. Yet might the observing eye of things concealed Conjecture safely, from the charms revealed. To all her arms a just proportion bear, And a white hand is oftentimes descried, Which narrow is, and somedeal long ; and where No knot...
Page 183 - Sollemnis taurum ingentem mactabat ad aras. Ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta (Horresco referens) immensis orbibus angues Incumbunt pelago, pariterque ad litora tendunt: Pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta, jubaeque Sanguineae exsuperant undas; pars cetera pontum Pone legit, sinuatque immensa volumine terga. Fit sonitus, spumante salo: jamque arva tenebant, Ardentesque oculos suffecti sanguine et igni Sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora.
Page 99 - Meanwhile a multitude Was in the forum, where a strife went on, — Two men contending for a fine, the price Of one who had been slain. Before the crowd One claimed that he had paid the fine, and one Denied that aught had been received, and both Called for the sentence which should end the strife.
Page 36 - ... illi agmine certo Laocoonta petunt, et primum parva duorum corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque implicat et miseros morsu depascitur artus; post ipsum auxilio subeuntem ac tela ferentem corripiunt spirisque ligant ingentibus: et iam bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum terga dati superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Page 109 - Di persona era tanto ben formata, quanto me' finger san pittori industri ; con bionda chioma lunga et annodata: oro non è che più risplenda e lustri. Spargeasi per la guancia delicata misto color di rose e di ligustri; di terso avorio era la fronte lieta, che lo spazio finia con giusta meta.