 ... presuming to measure how much or how little of historical matter these legends may contain. If the reader blame me for not assisting him to determine this— if he ask me why I do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the...  Blackwood's Magazine - Síða 1321847Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1864 - 622 síður
...not withdraw the curtain and disclose the picture, — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting...history which the first Greeks could conceive or relish in their past time : the curtain conceals nothing behind, and cannot by any ingenuity be withdrawn.... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1869 - 478 síður
...addressed to him on exhibiting his masterpiece of imitative art — -( The curtain is the picture P What we now read as poetry and legend was once accredited...the curtain conceals nothing behind, and cannot, by aoy ingenuity, be withdrawn/'* Now, to apply this to the legendary history of Britain, there is such... | |
 | 1869 - 974 síður
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting...masterpiece of imitative art : "The curtain is the picture," — "the curtain conceals nothing behind, and cannot by any ingenuity be withdrawn. I undertake only... | |
 | 1869 - 974 síður
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxia, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting his masterpiece of imitative art : "The curtain if the picture," — "the curtain conceals nothing behind, and cannot by any ingenuity be withdrawn.... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1878 - 204 síður
...that is legendary, but growing more and more firm and reliable as we come down the stream of time. the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting...imitative art : ' The curtain is the picture.' What _we now read as poetry and legend was once accredited history, and the only genuine history which the... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 síður
...do not withdraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting...behind, and cannot, by any ingenuity, be withdrawn." * During the next two years Grote and his wife had a great deal of intercourse with the stars of the... | |
 | George Grote - 1888 - 532 síður
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the worda of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting...his master-piece of imitative art — " The curtain « the picture ". What we now read as poetry and legend was once accredited history, and the only genuine... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1893 - 330 síður
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture, — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting...Greeks could conceive or relish of their past time." This illustrates well the early condition, not simply of the Greeks, but also of nearly all other ancient... | |
 | George Grote - 1899 - 532 síður
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture, — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting his master-piece of imitative art : " The eurtain is the picture." What we now read as poetry and legend was once accredited history, and the... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1908 - 360 síður
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting his masterpiece of imitative art : ' The curtain ts the picture.' What we now read as poetry and legend was once accredited history, and the only genuine... | |
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