Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 páginas |
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... passage . The hostile armies have made a truce ; they are busied with burning their dead ; and these rites are accompanied on both sides with the warm flow of tears , ( danova θερμὰ χέοντες ) . But Priam forbids the Trojans to weep ...
... passage . The hostile armies have made a truce ; they are busied with burning their dead ; and these rites are accompanied on both sides with the warm flow of tears , ( danova θερμὰ χέοντες ) . But Priam forbids the Trojans to weep ...
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... passage in Pliny , so mani- festly either interpolated or mutilated , that it ought not to have awaited my amendment ( 6 ) . h Bellorii Admiranda , Tab . 11 , 12 , i Plinius , xxxiv . 19. 36 . CHAPTER III . " Its BUT , as has been ...
... passage in Pliny , so mani- festly either interpolated or mutilated , that it ought not to have awaited my amendment ( 6 ) . h Bellorii Admiranda , Tab . 11 , 12 , i Plinius , xxxiv . 19. 36 . CHAPTER III . " Its BUT , as has been ...
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... passage from Lycophron , in which he bestows on the serpents the epithet of " child eaters . " b a But , if this had been the version commonly adopted by the Greeks , Greek artists would hardly have ventured to deviate from it ; or , if ...
... passage from Lycophron , in which he bestows on the serpents the epithet of " child eaters . " b a But , if this had been the version commonly adopted by the Greeks , Greek artists would hardly have ventured to deviate from it ; or , if ...
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... passage in Donatus ( 13 ) . How much less likely , then , would it be to escape the notice of artists , upon whose penetrating sight everything , that can be of advantage to them , bursts with such speed and significance . Though the ...
... passage in Donatus ( 13 ) . How much less likely , then , would it be to escape the notice of artists , upon whose penetrating sight everything , that can be of advantage to them , bursts with such speed and significance . Though the ...
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... passages are by these means rendered full of meaning , at the risk , perhaps , of de- stroying their effect . This is at once the aim and the error of a well- known English writer . Spence wrote his " Poly- metis " with a great deal of ...
... passages are by these means rendered full of meaning , at the risk , perhaps , of de- stroying their effect . This is at once the aim and the error of a well- known English writer . Spence wrote his " Poly- metis " with a great deal of ...
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Página 166 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother...
Página 167 - But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph...
Página 151 - Bianca nieve è il bel collo, e '1 petto latte; il collo è tondo, il petto colmo e largo: due pome acerbe, e pur d'avorio fatte, vengono e van come onda al primo margo, quando piacevole aura il mar combatte.
Página 51 - Bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum Terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Página 167 - Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace...
Página 167 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Página 140 - Di persona era tanto ben formata, quanto me' finger san pittori industri ; con bionda chioma lunga et annodata: oro non è che più risplenda e lustri. Spargeasi per la guancia delicata misto color di rose e di ligustri; di terso avorio era la fronte lieta, che lo spazio finia con giusta meta.
Página 220 - Sollemnis taurum ingentem mactabat ad aras. Ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta (Horresco referens) immensis orbibus angues Incumbunt pelago, pariterque ad litora tendunt : Pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta, jubaeque Sanguineae exsuperant undas : pars cetera pontum Pone legit, sinuatque immensa volumine terga.
Página 141 - La bocca sparsa di natio cinabro; Quivi due filze son di perle elette, Che chiude ed apre un bello, e dolce labro: Quindi escon le cortesi parolette Da render molle ogni cor rozzo e scabro: Quivi si forma quel soave riso, Ch'apre a sua posta in terra il paradiso. Bianca neve è il bel collo, e...
Página 244 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.