Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects, Volumen 1Robert Dodsley J. Dodsley, 1771 |
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... forming grave and punctual Notions of Beauty . Who , for Heaven's Sake , can reduce to Rules , what is so quick , and so variable , as to be shifting its Appearances every Mo- ment , on the most delightful Faces ? --- " And why are ...
... forming grave and punctual Notions of Beauty . Who , for Heaven's Sake , can reduce to Rules , what is so quick , and so variable , as to be shifting its Appearances every Mo- ment , on the most delightful Faces ? --- " And why are ...
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... forming any Guefs ; but fome late Difcove- ries have fhewn , that there is a fuprising Symmetry and Proportion in the Sizes and Difpofition of the feveral Worlds in our own Syftem ; from whence one would be apt to imagine , that the ...
... forming any Guefs ; but fome late Difcove- ries have fhewn , that there is a fuprising Symmetry and Proportion in the Sizes and Difpofition of the feveral Worlds in our own Syftem ; from whence one would be apt to imagine , that the ...
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... forming their Minds , and regulating their difagreeable Paffions , will really fall under the Cenfure I mentioned be- fore , from one of the Latin Poets ; and fhew too plainly to all the World , that they , in their own Hearts ...
... forming their Minds , and regulating their difagreeable Paffions , will really fall under the Cenfure I mentioned be- fore , from one of the Latin Poets ; and fhew too plainly to all the World , that they , in their own Hearts ...
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... formed fo exactly like real Flowers , that one is often apt to forget one's felf , and smell to them . The famous Signora Vannimano , at Rome ( fo many of whofe Works in this kind are continually brought Home by our Gentlemen who travel ...
... formed fo exactly like real Flowers , that one is often apt to forget one's felf , and smell to them . The famous Signora Vannimano , at Rome ( fo many of whofe Works in this kind are continually brought Home by our Gentlemen who travel ...
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... formed as if there had been fo many Steps produced there by Nature . The Infile of the Apartments anfwers perfectly to their Magnificence without . Befide their being very well difpofed , the Furniture and Ornaments are very rich , and ...
... formed as if there had been fo many Steps produced there by Nature . The Infile of the Apartments anfwers perfectly to their Magnificence without . Befide their being very well difpofed , the Furniture and Ornaments are very rich , and ...
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Página 115 - DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of nature.
Página 34 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure— Severe, but in true filial freedom placed, Whence true authority in men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
Página 152 - Eggs, upon white Paper ; and then 'applying my best Microscope, plainly discerned them to be little Men and Women, exact in all their Limbs and Lineaments, and ready to offer themselves little Candidates for Life, whenever they should happen to be imbibed with Air or Nutriment, and conveyed down into the Vessels of Generation.
Página 313 - In . the Revised Statutes, the words "or otherwise" were intentionally omitted. Hence the duty of personal examination became, in all cases, imperative. So great, however, is the tax imposed by this requirement upon the time of...
Página 29 - Soul is, but we fcarce know what it is ; every Judge of Beauty can point out Grace; but no one that I know of has ever yet fixt upon a Definition for it.
Página 25 - Writer very well exprefles it) " A Soul upon their Countenances," which does not appear when they are abfent from each other; or even when they are together, converfing with other Perfons, that are indifferent to them, or rather lay a Reftraint upon their Features. , I dare fay you begin to fee the Preference, that the Beauty of the Paffions has over the Two Parts of Beauty...
Página 23 - ... the cruel and unkind ones add to deformity; and it is on this account that good nature may, very juftly, be faid to be c 'the belt feature, even in the fineft face.
Página 35 - In beauty, that of favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour.
Página 51 - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks ; Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the North.
Página 69 - Risings and Hills are sprinkled with Trees ; and particularly with Flowering Trees, which are here very common. The sides of the Canals, or lesser Streams, are not faced (as they are with us) with smooth Stone, and in a...