 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1771 - 622 страници
...beautiful. For the works of nature are full of difproportion, and fail very fhort of the true ftandard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever prefented to his fight; but contemplated only that image which he had conceived in his mind from Homer's... | |
 | Several Hands - 1771 - 614 страници
...beautiful. For the works of nature are full of difproportion, and fail very fliort of the true ftandard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any obje& ever prefented to his fight; but contemplated only that knage which he had conceived in his mind... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1772 - 656 страници
...he formed his Jupiter, did «,nof copy any objeft ever pre' fented to his fight; but con' templated only that image which ' he had conceived in his mind ' from Homer's defcription." And thus Cicero, fpeaking of the fame Phidias ; " Neither did this " artift," fays he,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 страници
...imitation of ". them, will never attain to what is perfectly " beautiful. For the works of nature are full "of disproportion, and fall very short of the " true...description." And thus Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias : <c Neither did this '? artist," says he, " when he carved the " image of Jupiter or Minerva, set... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 430 страници
...of " them, will never attain to what is perfectly *' beautiful. For the works of nature are full *' of disproportion, a,nd fall very short of the " true...copy *' any object ever presented to his sight; but 44 contemplated only that image which he *' had conceived in his mind from Hpmer*s " description."... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 902 страници
...imitation of them, will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true...conceived in his mind, from Homer's description," Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias, says, — " Neither did this artist, when he carved the image... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 928 страници
...what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very slwrt of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when...conceived in his mind, from Homer's description." Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias, says, — " Neither did this artist, when he carved the image... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1825 - 892 страници
...imitalion of them, will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true...conceived in his mind, from Homer's description." Cicero, speaking of the same Phidias, says, — " Neither did this artist, when he carved the image... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1836 - 528 страници
...imitation of them, will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true...had conceived in his mind from Homer's description." * In short, while the Greek artists perpetually studied nature, they discovered her best and highest... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 434 страници
...imitation of them, will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true...conceived in his mind from Homer's description."* In short, while the Greek artists perpetually studied nature, they discovered her best and highest... | |
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who takes for his model such forms as nature produces, and confines himself to an exact imitation of them, will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of... 
