 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...Apelles, oy Albert 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 no body but the painter that made them: not but I think a painter... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...would make a person" age by geometrical proportions ; the " other, by taking the best parts out oi " divers faces, to make one excellent " The painter,...any opinion of so great a writer, and so profound i thinker, as undoubtedly Bacon was. Bu! he studies brevity to excess ; and therefore his meaning is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...Applies or Albert Durer, were the more trifier; 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: not but I think a painter... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...Apelles or Albert Dnrer, were the more trifier ; 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 bat the painter that made them : not but I think a painter... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...Apelles, or Abel 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. Not but I think, a painter... | |
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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 out of divers faces to make one Excellent. 
