 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...blame indeed — but we may sleep. rn wit, as nature, what affects our hearts 90 « Is notth' exactness of peculiar parts ; Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, 3ut the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-propprtion'il dome, [Rome !)... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 pages
...single feature, but must exhibit the united expression of all the features in the human face divine. ' Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call ; But the joint force and full result of all.' So the epic or dramatic poet, must not set before you an incongruous succession of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...blame indeed — but we may sleep. In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts Is not the exactness of peculiar parts ; 'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call ; 245 But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...may sleep. In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts ?s not the exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tjs not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some wcIUproportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and e'en thine,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...we may sleep. I n wit, as nature, what affects our hearts Is not the exactness of peculiar parte ; amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalcd fire and raptu result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportioned dome, (The world's just wonder,and even thine,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 396 pages
...starry eye*, cherry lips, rosy-cheeks and sylph-like figures. But, as he might have learned from Pope, " Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all." The poetry of the author of Lalla Rookh is more thoroughly oriental than he perhaps... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 370 pages
...starry eyes, cherry lips, rosy-cheeks and sylph-like figures. But, as he might have learned from Pope, " 'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of al!." The poetry of the author of Lalla Rookh is more thoroughly oriental than he perhaps... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...starry eyes, cherry lips, rosy-cheeks and sylph-like figures. But, as he might have learned from Pope, " 'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of al!." The poetry of the author of Lalla Rookh is more thoroughly oriental than he perhaps... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Artists - 1824 - 318 pages
...expresses it in his Essay on Criticism, " In Wit as Nature, what affects our hearts Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts; Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all." And Longinus, in explaining the power of harmonious arrangement, observes, " But, amongst... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...blame indeed — but we may sleep. In wit, as nature, what aft'ects our hearts Is not the exactness of peculiar parts ; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportioned dome, (The world's just wonder, and even thine,... | |
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Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes;... 
