 | Henry Naegely - 1902 - 238 lapas
...to construct figures on scientific principles, that they are ' triflers,' and, he goes on to say, ' Not but I think a painter may make a better face than...ever was, but he must do it by a kind of felicity, not by rule.' This felicity is but another name for that ever-alert, everattentive imagination of which... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 520 lapas
...Each one a lovely light." — Ancient Mariner.* 1 [Essays, xliii. " Of Beauty " : " Not but I thinke a Painter may make a better Face, than ever was; But he must doe it, by a Kimle of Felicity (as a Musician that maketh an excellent Ayre in Musieke, And not by... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 428 lapas
...to their own houses, they will faint by the way : for divers of them came from far." iforfc viii. 3. make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would...face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity,1 (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,) and not by rule. A man shall see... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 930 lapas
...of divers faces to make one excellent (a veritable composite picture) ? He concludes at last that : a painter may make a better face than ever was, but...he must do it by a kind of felicity, as a musician who makes an excellent air in music, not by rule. If ever there was an artist he was Shakespeare —... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - 1914 - 238 lapas
...art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. Bacon says in his essay "Of Beauty": "A painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity and not by rule". manner of analysis of the kinds of poetry on the basis of nature of subject-matter... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 lapas
...7 mounted simply 8 sensual c) bearing, deportment 10 appearance n generally 12 feature, countenance geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the...face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity1 (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music), and not by rule. A man shall see faces,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 lapas
...think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. Not but0 I think a painter may make a betrer face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity0 (as a musician that maketh an excellent air0 in music), and not by rule. A man shall see... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 508 lapas
...taking the beit parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such perfonages, I think, would pleafe nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I...painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he mult do it by a kind of felicity, as a mufician that maketh an excellent ayre in mufic, and not by... | |
 | Alexander Pope, John Oldmixon, Alfred Slater West - 2016 - 196 lapas
...been reached, there are secrets which cannot be taught by method and a freedom unfettered by rules. "A Painter may make a better Face than ever was ; But he must doe it by a kinde of Felicity (As a Musician that maketh an excellent Ayre in Musicke) And not by Rule."... | |
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Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by 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.... 
