Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in WomanJ. & H.G. Langley, 1840 - 390 sider |
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Side 51
... measure in the vege- table world likewise , the qualities that constitute beauty may possibly be united to things of greater dimensions [ that is , littleness may be united with bigness ! ] ; when they are so united they constitute a ...
... measure in the vege- table world likewise , the qualities that constitute beauty may possibly be united to things of greater dimensions [ that is , littleness may be united with bigness ! ] ; when they are so united they constitute a ...
Side 66
... measure de- pend upon sensibility ; because , if the mind has no bent to the pleasures of the imagination , it will never apply itself sufficiently to works of that spe- cies to acquire a competent knowledge in them . But though a ...
... measure de- pend upon sensibility ; because , if the mind has no bent to the pleasures of the imagination , it will never apply itself sufficiently to works of that spe- cies to acquire a competent knowledge in them . But though a ...
Side 96
... measure to regulate our oth- er perceptions of beauty . It is fitness which leads us to admire in one ani- mal , what would displease us if found in another . " The variety , " says Barry , " and 96 THE ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY .
... measure to regulate our oth- er perceptions of beauty . It is fitness which leads us to admire in one ani- mal , what would displease us if found in another . " The variety , " says Barry , " and 96 THE ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY .
Side 115
... measure dependant upon our will . We can gener- ally , when we please , confine our consideration of it to the qualities that least excite pleasurable or painful emotion , and that can least interest the im- agination . It is in ...
... measure dependant upon our will . We can gener- ally , when we please , confine our consideration of it to the qualities that least excite pleasurable or painful emotion , and that can least interest the im- agination . It is in ...
Side 131
... measure , instead of a sympathetic and de- lightful sorrow , we excite only horror and aversion . The most , therefore , that can be concluded from the Abbé's premises , is , that it is useful to excite passion of some kind or other ...
... measure , instead of a sympathetic and de- lightful sorrow , we excite only horror and aversion . The most , therefore , that can be concluded from the Abbé's premises , is , that it is useful to excite passion of some kind or other ...
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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