...that where a great beauty is in the Poet's NOTES. 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...

...strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert 1Jiirer were the more triflcr ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical...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...

...Durer, were the more triffer ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical propor*;ons : 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...

...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 nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter...

...some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more6 trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by...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...

...which every deviation is deformity. But the investigation of this form, I grant, is painful, and 1 know but of one method of shortening the road ; this...do it by a kind of felicity. ... and not by rule."* It is not safe to question any opinion of so great a writer, and so profound a thinker, as undoubtedly...

...some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the greater trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by...proportions ; the other, by taking the best parts out of several faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter...

...ridicule the idea of confining proportion to rules, or of producing beauty by selection. " A man can not tell," says he, "whether Apelles or Albert Durer were...do it by a kind of felicity .... and not by rule."* It is not safe to question any opinion of so great a writer, and so profound a thinker, as undoubtedly...

...et ille puer." Essay XLIII. Of Beauty.— See Antith., No. 2. Tol. viii. p. 354. " A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler...parts out of divers faces to make one excellent."] With regard to Apelles, Lord Bacon probably alludes to the story of Zeuxis in Cic. De Inv. ii. 1. "...

...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...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...