 | John Burnet - 1848 - 244 pàgines
...that dignity which beauty acquires from appearing the preserver of its highest quality. Bacon says, " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life." Sir Joshua seems to have laboured to represent this inward excellence; and we can fancy the grace and... | |
 | James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - 1848 - 586 pàgines
...that of favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious more than that of favour. 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. A man cannot tell whether... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pàgines
...of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour. That is the best par! 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. A man cannot tell whether... | |
 | J. D. Bell - 1850 - 488 pàgines
...agreeable in my own eye and not deformed in that of the world, to a celebrated beauty." Says Lord Bacon : " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life." Says the venerable Fuller: "Neither choose all, nor not at all, for beauty." Love, without reason,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pàgines
...favour 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 picture cannot express ; no nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pàgines
...favour" 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 picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pàgines
...favour 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 picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether... | |
 | 1861 - 490 pàgines
...inspiring principle of art. Few have been able to give any expression of it — none perfectly ; " that is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express, no, nor the first sight of life ;" while man, carried away by impure desires, often fails to recognise the reflection of it that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pàgines
...favour 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 picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pàgines
...favour is more than that of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour. ur an endless progress, or proficience in both ; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell,... | |
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That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. 
