The Splendid Advantages of Being a WomanLovell, Adam, Wesson, 1876 - 362 من الصفحات |
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... injurious to our peace of mind . It is quite time that Beauty should be brought to task for her manifold offences against the welfare of society , and that the claims of Ugliness 8 ERRATIC ESSAYS . The Advantages of being Ugly.
... injurious to our peace of mind . It is quite time that Beauty should be brought to task for her manifold offences against the welfare of society , and that the claims of Ugliness 8 ERRATIC ESSAYS . The Advantages of being Ugly.
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... mind first its capricious and fantastic organ , and secondly the ridic- ulous brevity of its existence . " Every eye makes its own beauty , " says the proverb . This being so it follows . that Beauty is after all no positive entity , no ...
... mind first its capricious and fantastic organ , and secondly the ridic- ulous brevity of its existence . " Every eye makes its own beauty , " says the proverb . This being so it follows . that Beauty is after all no positive entity , no ...
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... mind a glossy , amia- ble insect ; high cheek bones have a bold , majestic , cliff- like look ; a low forehead bespeaks the gentle virtue of humility ; and a mouth that is like unto an oven resem- bles a very good thing . And then for ...
... mind a glossy , amia- ble insect ; high cheek bones have a bold , majestic , cliff- like look ; a low forehead bespeaks the gentle virtue of humility ; and a mouth that is like unto an oven resem- bles a very good thing . And then for ...
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... mind . " Thought would destroy his paradise . " Educate a man and you make him critical ; being critical he will become fastidious : and once fastidious , farewell forever to enjoyment ! To an ignorant man the world is full of surprises ...
... mind . " Thought would destroy his paradise . " Educate a man and you make him critical ; being critical he will become fastidious : and once fastidious , farewell forever to enjoyment ! To an ignorant man the world is full of surprises ...
الصفحة 27
... mind . Teach him music , and the barrel - organs and brass bands to which he now listens with rapture will jar upon his ear with intolerable dis- cord . The vilest chromo is now to his eyes even as the lovliest Claude . Give him an idea ...
... mind . Teach him music , and the barrel - organs and brass bands to which he now listens with rapture will jar upon his ear with intolerable dis- cord . The vilest chromo is now to his eyes even as the lovliest Claude . Give him an idea ...
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الصفحة 268 - Falsely luxurious, will not man awake; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of th
الصفحة 151 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
الصفحة 51 - Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ; Sure these denote one universal joy.
الصفحة 128 - She, of whose soul, if we may say, 'twas gold, Her body was the electrum, and did hold Many degrees of that ; we understood Her by her sight ; her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought...
الصفحة 341 - Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die. But this bold lord, with manly strength...
الصفحة 20 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
الصفحة 355 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
الصفحة 18 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
الصفحة 360 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
الصفحة 215 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.