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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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Bacon's Essays, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1882 - 324 pages
...make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. as 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, Volume 3

Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1883 - 460 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 j but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and...
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Essays

Francis Bacon - 1883 - 236 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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Francis Bacon: (Lord Verulam.): A Critical Review of His Life and Character

Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 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

Walter Savage Landor - 1883 - 458 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 rule."...
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 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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Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 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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Bacon's Essays, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - Essays - 1884 - 722 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 maj make a better face than ever was, but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh...
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The Philosophy of Art in America, a Dissertation Upon Vital Topics of the ...

Charles Henry Miller - Aesthetics - 1885 - 152 pages
...the best parts 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 who makes an excellent air in music), and not by rule....
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A biographical history of English literature

John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...Excellent. Such Personages, I think, would please no Body but the Painter, that made them. Not but I thinke a Painter, may make a better Face than ever was ; But he must do it by a kiude of Felicity 14 (As a Musician that maketh an excellent Ayre in Musicke,) And...
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