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" ... faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent... "
The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ... - Page 159
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...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 may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by- a kind Music resembles Poetry ; in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...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 nuiy make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a Music resembles Poetry ; in each Are...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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 may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and not by...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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 may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and not by...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ...

Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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 may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and not by...
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Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, Volume 5

Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...conclusion. " Such personages," he continues to remark, " I think would please nobody but the painter who made them: not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music), and not by...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 15

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...you, Stand in the air a thousand leagues from hence ; Yet strait they shall be here. Id. Henry IV. A painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, as a musician that maketh an excellent air in nuaick, and not by...
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Sig. 2x2-4B3 of vol.1 . Lectures, delivered in the Royal academy

James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...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 may make a better face than ever was, but he must do it by a kind of felicity, as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music, and not by rule....
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Moral, Economical, and Political Essays

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...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 may make a hetter face than ewei was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...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 may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music, and not by rule....
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