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" There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts... "
The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a ... - Page 334
by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason - 1852
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An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
..." There is no excellent beauty, that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer, were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical * 'j. Vincentii Gravime Je POESI, ad S. Maffeium EPIST. Added to his treatife...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - Verse satire, English - 1772 - 374 pages
..." There is no excellent beauty, that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer, were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical proportions ; the other by taking the beft parts out of divers faces, to make...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ...: Containing His ..., Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...which every deviation is deformity. But the investigation of this form, I grant, is painful, and I know But of one method of shortening the road ; this...trifler: whereof the " one would make a personage by geome" trical proportions; the other, by taking " the best parts out of divers faces, to make " one...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...Ragion Poetic*. In Napoli. 1716. pag. 239,250. f Ver. HI. ness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think, a painter...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...Poetics. lu Napoli. 1716. pag. 239,250. t Ver. 141. ness in the proportion, A man cannot tell ther Apelles or Albert Durer .were the more trifler : whereof...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think, a painter...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope ...

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...WARBURTOJU. NOTES. lent beauty that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by ~geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the beft parts out of divers facci to...
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...NOTES. lent beauty that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether A pelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the bed parts out of divers facet to make...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles, oy Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please no body but the painter that made them: not but I think a painter...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please no body but the painter that made them ; not but I think a painter...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...life. There i* no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler;...best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such personages I think would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter...
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