...though the most perfect forms of each of the general divisions of the human figure are ideal ... vet the highest perfection of the human figure is not...Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo. Here he comes again to his Central Form. Page 64. There is, likewise, a kind of symmetry, or proportion,...

...that perfection, he must re-unite the characters that Reynolds has found himself obliged to separate; 'It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo' , that perfect beauty is to be found; it is in 'that form which is taken from them all, and which partakes...

...was not enough. Nor was the Ideal encapsulated in any one classical statue. 'It is not', he stated, 'in the Hercules, nor in the 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 of the Apollo,...

...remarks: I must add further, that though the most perfect forms of each of the general divisions of the human figure are ideal, and superior to any individual...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 of the Apollo,...

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