 Tis one thing to draw the outlines true, the features like, the proportions exact, the colouring itself perhaps tolerable ; and another thing to make all these graceful, by the posture, the shadowings, and, chiefly, by the spirit which animates the whole.  Essays - Sida 105efter John Dryden - 1895 - 218 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Dryden - 1702 - 362 sidor
...felf perhaps tolerable, and another thing to make all theft grace/«/> by the pofture, the Jhadowings, and chiefly by the Spirit which animates the whole. I cannot -without fome indignation, look on an ill Copy of an excellent Original : Much lefs can I behold with patience... | |
 | John Dryden - 1743 - 352 sidor
...fclf perhaps tolerable ; and another thing to make all thefe graceful, by thePoflure, the Shajowings, and chiefly by the Spirit, which animates the whole. I cannot, without fonie Indignation, look on an ill Copy of an excellent Original : Much lefs can I behold with patience... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 sidor
...proportions exact, the colouring itself perhaps tolerable ; and another thing to make all these graceful, i?y the posture, the shadowings, and chiefly by the spirit which animates the whole. I cannot without some indignationlook on an ill copy of an excellent original : much less can I behold with patience Virgil,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 490 sidor
...thing to draw the outlines true, the features like, the proportions exact, the colouring itself perhaps tolerable ; and another thing to make all these graceful,...ill copy of an excellent original ; much less can 1 behold with patience Virgil, Homer, and some others, whose beauties I have been endeavouring all... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 496 sidor
...thing to draw the outlines true, the features like, the proportions exact, the colouring itself perhaps tolerable ; and another thing to make all these graceful,...ill copy of an excellent original ; much less can 1 behold with patience Virgil, Homer, and some others, whose beauties I have been endeavouring all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 sidor
...ouUiries true, the features like, the proportions exact, the colouring itself perhaps tolerable ; aud another thing to make all these graceful, by the posture,...can I behold with patience Virgil, Homer, and some other«, whose beauties 1 have been endeavouring all my life to imitate, so abused, as I may saj1,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 sidor
...perhaps tolerable ; and another thing to make all these graceful, by the posture, the shadowirigs, and chiefly by the spirit which animates the whole....can I behold with patience Virgil, Homer, and some other), whose beauties I have been endeavouring all my life to imitate, so abusi-d, as I may say, to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 sidor
...to draw the out-lines true, the features like, the proportions exact, the colouring itself perhaps tolerable ; and another thing to make all these graceful, by the posture, the shadowing*, and chiefly by the spirit which animates the whole. I cannot, without some indignation,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 sidor
...itself p«rbap* tolerable; aud another thing to make all these graceful, by the posture, the sbadowings, and chiefly by the spirit which animates the whole. I cannot, without sume indignation, look on an id copy of an excellent original. Much less can I behold with patience... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 496 sidor
...thing to draw the outlines true, the features like, the proportions exact, the colouring itself perhaps tolerable ; and another thing to make all these graceful,...original ; much less can I behold with patience Virgil, Homeland some others, whose beauties I have been endeavouring all my life to imitate, so abused, as... | |
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