 | Horace - 1766 - Počet stránok 282
...for inftance (as there is no commoner fubjeft of moral portraits) in a colleftion, where every mufclc is drained, and feature hardened into the expreffion...at the former of thefe judgments. But the latter, I fufpeft, will not be thought fo extraordinary. At leaft if one may guefs from the practice of fome... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - Počet stránok 390
...every muscle is strained, and feature hardened into the expression, of this idea, never fail to profess their wonder and approbation of it. — On this idea of excellence Le Brun's book of the PASSIONS must be said, to contain a set of the justest moral portraits : Andi the CHARACTERS of Theophrastus... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - Počet stránok 374
...every muscle is strained, and feature hardened into the expression of this idea, never fail to profess their wonder and approbation of it — On this idea of excellence Le Bran's book of the PASSIONS must be said to contain a set of the justest moral portraits : And the... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1879 - Počet stránok 558
...every muscle is strained, and feature hardened into the expression of this idea, never fail to profess their wonder and approbation of it. On this idea of excellence, Le Brun's book of the Passions must be said to contain a set of the unjustest moral portraits. And the characters of Theophrastus... | |
 | John George Robertson - 1939 - Počet stránok 568
...every muscle is strained, and feature hardened into the expression of this idea, never fail to profess their wonder and approbation of it. — On this idea of excellence, Le Brun's book of the PASSIONS1 must be said to contain a set of the justest moral portraits: And the CHARACTERS of Theophrastus... | |
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... portraits of this vicious taste are the admiration of common starers, who, if they find a picture of a miser for instance (as there is no commoner subject of moral portraits) in a collection, where every muscle is strained, and feature hardened into... 