Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in WomanJ. & H.G. Langley, 1840 - 390 sider |
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Side x
... excite its wonder , as its own properties and capabilities its new perceptions — its new affections . Till progress brings with it this knowledge of ourselves , we remain ignorant of half that is within us to affect us like a spell ...
... excite its wonder , as its own properties and capabilities its new perceptions — its new affections . Till progress brings with it this knowledge of ourselves , we remain ignorant of half that is within us to affect us like a spell ...
Side xii
... excite our wonder . But the wonder ceases , notwithstanding , when we turn from record to our own experience , and see the effect , on others and ourselves , of what we once read about in the curious annals of our species . We now see ...
... excite our wonder . But the wonder ceases , notwithstanding , when we turn from record to our own experience , and see the effect , on others and ourselves , of what we once read about in the curious annals of our species . We now see ...
Side 2
... excite and permanently com- mand a great degree of public interest . A preliminary view of the importance of this subject is given in the first chapter ; the urgency of its discussion , in relation to the interests of de- cency and ...
... excite and permanently com- mand a great degree of public interest . A preliminary view of the importance of this subject is given in the first chapter ; the urgency of its discussion , in relation to the interests of de- cency and ...
Side 40
... excite the imagination and impel the mind to sub- lime exertions ; but the sole means of either ob- taining or preserving such impulsion is , to shun the indulgence of pleasure in early life , and its waste at later periods . It has ...
... excite the imagination and impel the mind to sub- lime exertions ; but the sole means of either ob- taining or preserving such impulsion is , to shun the indulgence of pleasure in early life , and its waste at later periods . It has ...
Side 41
... excite the mental powers on great occasions . By such means may a man sure- ly surpass others , if he have received from his parents proportional mental energy . Beside the means already indicated , there is one proposed by an able ...
... excite the mental powers on great occasions . By such means may a man sure- ly surpass others , if he have received from his parents proportional mental energy . Beside the means already indicated , there is one proposed by an able ...
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abdomen action admiration agreeable ancient animals appear artists beauty in woman body brain Burke cause cerebrum CHAPTER character clavicles Cnidos color consequently considered constitute countenance degree delicacy delicate effect elements of beauty emotion excite expression external face facial angle farther feeling female figure five temperaments forehead functions grace greater Greeks hair head Hence human human voice idea ideal imagination indicated individual influence intellectual kind of beauty less libertinism limbs locomotive system male mammæ ment mental mind mons veneris moral motion muscles muscular nature ness nose novelty nutritive objects observed passions peculiar pelvis perfect person physiognomy pleasure possess Praxiteles present principles proportion puberty qualities reason regard relation remarkable render respect says sensation sensibility skin soft species of beauty sublime taste temperament thinking tion trunk variety Venus Venus de Medici viscera vital system Vitruvius Winckelmann women writer