 | Several Hands - 1771 - 614 pages
...divifions-of ehefcuman figure are ideal, and fuperior to any individual form of Chat clafs ; yet the hisheft perfection of the human figure is not to •be found in any one of them; it is not in the iiercules, nor * To the principle I have laid down, that the idea bf beauty in each fpecies of beings... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1771 - 622 pages
...the hutman figure are i'.'eal, and fiiperior to any individual form of that clafs ; yet the iiigheft perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any one of them; it is. not ia the Hercules, nor in in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form which is compounded... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1772 - 656 pages
...perfect, as it is more remote from all peculiarities. But I muft add further, that though the moll perfeft forms of each of the general divifions of the human...Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form which is compounded of them all, and which partakes equally of the aftivity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...of the human figure are ideal, and superior to any individual form of that class ; yet the highest perfection of the human figure is not to be found...Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of... | |
 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1805 - 422 pages
...for, though each of those figures are |>erfect in their kind, yet Sir Joshua affirms, that the highest perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any one of them, " but in that form which is taken from them all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 pages
...weak one against its opposite, the beauty will be, so far, diminished. Thus, as Sir Joshua observes, " It is not in " the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in " the Apollo, but in that form, which is taken " from all/' that the beauty of the species exists. " For perfect beauty," he adds, " in any... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...of the human figure are ideal, and superior to any individual form of that class ; yet the highest perfection of the human figure is not to be found...Gladiator, nor in the Apollo; but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 pages
...of the human figure are ideal, and superior to any individual form of that class ; yet the highest perfection of the human figure is not to be found...Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of... | |
 | 1821 - 508 pages
...of the human figure are ideal, and -superior to any individual form of that class; yet the highest perfection of the human figure is not to be found...Gladiator, nor in the Apollo; but in that form which is taken from them all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 pages
...of the human figure are ideal, and superior to any individual form of that class ; yet the highest perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any of them. It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form which... | |
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... superior to any individual form of that class; yet the highest perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any one of them. It is not in the Hercules... 
