... faces to make one 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 that maketh an excellent... An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 134by Joseph Warton - 1762Full view - About this book
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think, a painter nuiy make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a Music resembles Poetry ; in each Are... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them : not but I...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... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them : not but I...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them : not but I...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... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...conclusion. " Such personages," he continues to remark, " I think would please nobody but the painter who 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 that maketh an excellent air in music), and not by... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...you, Stand in the air a thousand leagues from hence ; Yet strait they shall be here. Id. Henry IV. 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 nuaick, and not by... | |
| James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think...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.... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them : not but I think a painter may make a hetter face than ewei was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think...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.... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them : not but I...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... | |
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