Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in WomanJ. & H.G. Langley, 1840 - 390 sider |
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Side vi
... influence on individuals and society , in connexion with its perpetration in posterity - all these were novel topics of vast and exciting interest , and well adapted to the genius , taste , and research of our author . - - In preparing ...
... influence on individuals and society , in connexion with its perpetration in posterity - all these were novel topics of vast and exciting interest , and well adapted to the genius , taste , and research of our author . - - In preparing ...
Side ix
... influence upon all of one sex , like that which Master Shakspeare has given picture of in the lines we have set upon our front , we would not pretend to say : but that the wild bard was no freshman in his knowledge of humanity so far as ...
... influence upon all of one sex , like that which Master Shakspeare has given picture of in the lines we have set upon our front , we would not pretend to say : but that the wild bard was no freshman in his knowledge of humanity so far as ...
Side x
... influence , as a principle , upon the principles of our nature . And first it must be admitted that they are good of a good origin— and tend to a good result . They are good elements , we believe , for we find them almost ever ...
... influence , as a principle , upon the principles of our nature . And first it must be admitted that they are good of a good origin— and tend to a good result . They are good elements , we believe , for we find them almost ever ...
Side xi
... influence it would be needless as well as unphilosophical to deny that the great object of its fix- ture — its enthronement upon its high place , should be one of no common character , or of a tendency and effect within us , which it ...
... influence it would be needless as well as unphilosophical to deny that the great object of its fix- ture — its enthronement upon its high place , should be one of no common character , or of a tendency and effect within us , which it ...
Side xiii
... influence or element . We have heard it denied , it is cer- tain - but it was even by those who have never tested the power by an application of it to themselves , or a surrender to its mysteries , by an approach to the real presence ...
... influence or element . We have heard it denied , it is cer- tain - but it was even by those who have never tested the power by an application of it to themselves , or a surrender to its mysteries , by an approach to the real presence ...
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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