The Art of Beauty; Or, the Best Methods of Improving and Preserving the Shape, Carriage, and Complexion. Together with the Theory of BeautyKnight and Lacey ... and Westley and Tyrrell, Dublin, 1825 - 385 páginas |
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Página 48
... feelings , and so far from this being compen- sated by any advantage , it is almost uniformly hurt- ful . These animadversions apply still more strongly to the inclined than to the horizontal plane ; in so much as it is more uneasy to ...
... feelings , and so far from this being compen- sated by any advantage , it is almost uniformly hurt- ful . These animadversions apply still more strongly to the inclined than to the horizontal plane ; in so much as it is more uneasy to ...
Página 71
... feeling of general weariness and fatigue from the slightest exertion , with listless inactivity , and a propensity to lounge and loll about , quite unsuitable to the activity characteristic of youth . There is a disposition to stoop ...
... feeling of general weariness and fatigue from the slightest exertion , with listless inactivity , and a propensity to lounge and loll about , quite unsuitable to the activity characteristic of youth . There is a disposition to stoop ...
Página 84
... feelings , whether pleasant or painful , are injurious to plumpness and embon- point . If these are attended to , the diet is not so material , though good living is a powerful assistant . Above all other things , good mild ale , and ...
... feelings , whether pleasant or painful , are injurious to plumpness and embon- point . If these are attended to , the diet is not so material , though good living is a powerful assistant . Above all other things , good mild ale , and ...
Página 92
... feelings of the inner layer of the skin . It is the only part of the body , besides the teeth , which can bear the contact of the air . In the living body , the scarf - skin allows of the passage of moisture both inwards and outwards ...
... feelings of the inner layer of the skin . It is the only part of the body , besides the teeth , which can bear the contact of the air . In the living body , the scarf - skin allows of the passage of moisture both inwards and outwards ...
Página 96
... nicety . The importance of moisture , to life and feeling , is proved by the simple experi- ment of putting a common garden snail in a dry place , where it will soon become torpid and appa- 96 BEAUTY OF THE SKIN . The moisture of the skin.
... nicety . The importance of moisture , to life and feeling , is proved by the simple experi- ment of putting a common garden snail in a dry place , where it will soon become torpid and appa- 96 BEAUTY OF THE SKIN . The moisture of the skin.
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Página 368 - Long labour, why, forgetful of his toils And due repose, he loiters to behold The sunshine gleaming as through amber clouds, O'er all the western sky ; full soon, I ween, His rude expression and untutor'd airs, Beyond the power of language, will unfold The form of beauty smiling at his heart...
Página 362 - I answer that, in consequence of having seen many, the power is acquired, even without seeking after it, of distinguishing between accidental blemishes and excrescences which are continually varying the surface of nature's works, and the invariable general form which nature most frequently produces and always seems to intend in her productions.
Página 359 - E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down, a pensive hour to spend ; And, plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear ; Lakes, forests, cities, plains extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride.
Página 368 - With tract oblique At first, as one who sought access, but fear'd To interrupt, sidelong he works his way.
Página 369 - Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the...
Página 378 - ... as the proper objects of love and sympathy. Laying aside the emotions arising from difference of sex, and supposing female beauty to be contemplated by the pure and unenvying eye of a female, it seems quite obvious, that, among its ingredients, we should trace the signs of two different sets of qualities, that are neither of them the object of sight, but of a far higher...
Página 377 - The most beautiful object in nature, perhaps, is the countenance of a young and beautiful woman ; — and we are apt at first to imagine, that, independent of all associations, the form and colours which it displays are, in themselves, lovely and engaging; and would appear charming to all beholders, with whatever other qualities or impressions they might happen to be connected.
Página 382 - But lo! disclosed in all her smiling pomp, Where Beauty onward moving claims the verse Her charms inspire: the freely-flowing verse In thy immortal praise, O form divine, Smooths her mellifluent stream. Thee, Beauty, thee The regal dome, and thy enlivening ray The mossy roofs adore: thou, better sun! For ever beamest on the enchanted heart Love, and harmonious wonder, and delight Poetic.
Página 360 - And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet? The high-born soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry.
Página 368 - Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...