Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in WomanJ. & H.G. Langley, 1840 - 390 sider |
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Side xi
... . This freedom was a perpetual lesson to a nation . The principle was developed , and the power of Beauty had a new , and forming , and mastering sway . A people were - coming into the light of better feeling — better PRELIMINARY ESSAY .
... . This freedom was a perpetual lesson to a nation . The principle was developed , and the power of Beauty had a new , and forming , and mastering sway . A people were - coming into the light of better feeling — better PRELIMINARY ESSAY .
Side xii
... light of better feeling — better society — better government , under the gradual but no less certain operation of a living principle , brought into great and beautiful action , under the commanding hand of Genius , that seemed to pass ...
... light of better feeling — better society — better government , under the gradual but no less certain operation of a living principle , brought into great and beautiful action , under the commanding hand of Genius , that seemed to pass ...
Side 25
... light than this does on the nature of these decen- cies . That coquetry has well calculated her procedure , does not admit of a doubt . She appeals to imagi- nation , which she knows will spread charms over even ugly forms ; she seeks ...
... light than this does on the nature of these decen- cies . That coquetry has well calculated her procedure , does not admit of a doubt . She appeals to imagi- nation , which she knows will spread charms over even ugly forms ; she seeks ...
Side 62
... lights with attention and deliberation . " This is well illustrated by Burke , who observes : " It is known that the taste ( whatever it is ) is im- proved exactly as we improve our knowledge , by a steady attention to our object , and ...
... lights with attention and deliberation . " This is well illustrated by Burke , who observes : " It is known that the taste ( whatever it is ) is im- proved exactly as we improve our knowledge , by a steady attention to our object , and ...
Side 63
... lights upon a more artificial work of the same nature ; he be- gins to look with contempt on what he admired at first ; not that he admired it even then for its un- likeness to a man , but for that general though STANDARD OF TASTE IN ...
... lights upon a more artificial work of the same nature ; he be- gins to look with contempt on what he admired at first ; not that he admired it even then for its un- likeness to a man , but for that general though STANDARD OF TASTE IN ...
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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