Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in WomanHenry G. Langley, 1845 - 390 Seiten |
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abdomen action admiration agreeable ancient animals appear artists beauty in woman body bosom brain Burke cause cerebrum character circumstances clavicles Cnidos color consequently constitute countenance degree delicacy delicate effect elements of beauty ellipsis emotion excite expression external face facial angle faculties farther feeling female figure five temperaments forehead functions grace greater Greeks hair head Hence human human voice ideal ideas imagination indicated individual influence intellectual kind of beauty less libertinism limbs locomotive system mammæ ment mental mind mons veneris motion muscles muscular nature nervous ness nose novelty nutritive objects observed organs of sense passions peculiar pelvis perfect person physiognomy pleasure possess Praxiteles present principles proportion puberty qualities relation remarkable render respect says sensibility skin soft species of beauty sublime taste temperament thinking tion trunk variety Venus Venus de Medici vital system Vitruvius Winckelmann women writer
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Seite 28 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Seite 351 - She then thought .of that expression — it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun — which words then seemed to her to be very applicable to Jesus Christ.
Seite 62 - On the whole, it appears to me, that what is called taste, in its most general acceptation, is not a simple idea, but is partly made up of a perception of the primary pleasures of sense, of the secondary pleasures of the imagination, and of the conclusions of the reasoning faculty, concerning the various relations of these, and concerning the human passions, manners, and actions.
Seite 121 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Seite 298 - Apollo ; but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the Hercules. For perfect beauty in any species must combine all the characters which are beautiful in that species.
Seite 60 - In the morning of our days, when the senses are unworn and tender, when the whole man is awake in every part, and the gloss of novelty fresh upon all the objects that surround us, how lively at that time are our sensations, but how false and inaccurate the judgments we form of things!
Seite 28 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language ; still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Seite 62 - Where good sense is wanting, he is not qualified to discern the beauties of design and reasoning, whic-h are the highest and most excellent.
Seite 127 - I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others...
Seite 50 - A man in a fever would not insist on his palate as able to decide concerning flavours; nor would one affected with the jaundice pretend to give a verdict with regard to colours. In each creature there is a sound and a defective state; and the former alone can be supposed to afford us a true standard of taste and sentiment.