 | Heathergate - 1873 - 316 pàgines
...now that I have been a week here, she recalls to my mind Lord Bacon's words in his Essay on Beauty. ' That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot...express ; no — nor the first sight of the life.' Neither pen of poet, nor pencil of artist can describe the various moods and graces of .this charming... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1874 - 360 pàgines
...yet equal to the expression of the most commanding passion — a face gifted peculiarly with that " best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express — no, nor the first sight of the life," — a face, wonderful indeed, in the magic and variety of its expression. Along with these, she possesses... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pàgines
...favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious motion more than that I5 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 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. LORD BACON : Essay XL... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 412 pàgines
...father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury." Sclxrptnhauer. "That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express." Bacon. a Booto/Dayi. beaten oil for the light a 1 Jo. ii. 20 ; Pa. cxix. 106; .Mn v. 16. 6 Ex. ixvi.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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... | |
 | Valentine Durrant - 1877 - 560 pàgines
...hot wall without;" and would think his beauty-quest at least had the moral of Bacon's words, — " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express." Yet the picture was passing fair, as she would sit between him and the open window, looking upon the... | |
 | Quite - 1878 - 90 pàgines
...more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour," and " That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life."—And why is that ? but that beauty of mind is able to compensate for, if not to overcome, the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pàgines
...favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious motion more than that IS' 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 - 1879 - 356 pàgines
...favour 6 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.7 There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot... | |
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That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. 
