 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 394 pàgines
...symptoms of the mortality of man ; and, perhaps, few of his works are more evanescent than paintings. Sculpture retains its freshness for twenty centuries...evanescent are paintings, and must necessarily be. Those of Zeuxis and Apelles are no more, and perhaps they bore the same relation to Homer and vEschylus, that... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 258 pàgines
...symptoms of the mortality of man ; and, perhaps, few of his works are more evanescent than paintings. Sculpture retains its freshness for twenty centuries...evanescent are paintings, and must necessarily be. Those of Zeuxis and Apelles are no more, and perhaps they bore the same relation to Homer and yEschylus, that... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1845 - 710 pàgines
...such stupendous works of art ! — Richardson. XII. — Few works are more evanescent than paintings. Sculpture retains its freshness for twenty centuries....and perhaps they bore the same relation to Homer and jEschylus that those of Guido and Raphael bear to Dante and Petrarch. There is one refuge from the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pàgines
...symptoms of the mortality of man, and, perhaps, few of his works are more evanescent than paintings. Sculpture retains its freshness for twenty centuries...are paintings ! and must necessarily be. Those of .Zeuxis and Apelles are no more ; and perhaps they bore the same relation to Homer and jEscbylus, that... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - 1853 - 336 pàgines
...West, became infallibly ruined." PAINTINGS EVANESCENT. " Few works are more evanescent than paintings. Sculpture retains its freshness for twenty centuries....productions of man coeval with the human race. Sophocles and Shakepeare can be produced and reproduced forever. But how evanescent are paintings, and must necessarily... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pàgines
...symptoms of the mortality of man, and perhaps, few of his works are more evanescent than paintings. Sculpture retains its freshness for twenty centuries...ever. But how evanescent are paintings ! and must Vol. ii— ji— (1283) necessarily be. Those of Zeuxis and Apelles are no more ; and perhaps they... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 424 pàgines
...symptoms of the mortality of man ; and, perhaps, few of his works -are more evanescent than paintings. Sculpture retains its freshness for twenty centuries...productions of man coeval with the human race. Sophocles and Shakespeare can be produced and reproduced for ever. But how evanescent are paintings, and must necessarily... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 426 pàgines
...symptoms of the mortality of man ; and, perhaps, few of his works are more evanescent than paintings. Sculpture retains its freshness for twenty centuries...productions of man coeval with the human race. Sophocles and Shakespeare can be produced and reproduced for ever. But how evanescent are paintings, and must necessarily... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1882 - 304 pàgines
...symptoms of the mortality of man ; and perhaps few of his works are more evanescent than paintings. Sculpture retains its freshness for twenty centuries....productions of man coeval with the human race. Sophocles and Shakespeare can be produced and reproduced for ever. But how evanescent are paintings, and must necessarily... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887 - 758 pàgines
...reproduced for ever. But how evanescent are paintings ! and must necessarily be. Those of Zeuxis ana Apelles are no more ; and perhaps they bore the same...relation to Homer and ^Eschylus, that those of Guido and Raffael bear to Dante and Petrarch. There is one refuge from the despondency of this contemplation.... | |
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These are symptoms of the mortality of man ; and, perhaps, few of his works are more evanescent than paintings. Sculpture retains its freshness for twenty centuries — the Apollo and the Venus are as they were. But books are perhaps the only productions... 
