The shilling book of beauty, ed. and illustr. by Cuthbert Bede1856 |
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The Shilling Book of Beauty, Ed. and Illustr. by Cuthbert Bede Edward Bradley Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
The Shilling Book of Beauty, Ed. and Illustr. by Cuthbert Bede Edward Bradley Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 40 - As the sweet moon on the horizon's verge The maid was on the eve of womanhood; The boy had fewer summers, but his heart Had far outgrown his years, and to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him...
Página 121 - Invention be the mother of poetry, yet this child is like all others born naked, and must be nourished with care, clothed with exactness and elegance, educated with industry, instructed with art, improved by application, corrected with severity, and accomplished with labour and with time, before it arrives at any great perfection or growth.
Página 12 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Página 61 - Wych, attended by her waitingwomen, all of them dressed in their great vardingales, which was the court-dress of the English ladies at that time, waited upon her highness. The Sultaness received her visitor with great respect, but, struck with the extraordinary extension of the hips of the whole party, seriously inquired if that shape was peculiar to the natural formation of...
Página 53 - How can men wear such dirty stuff ? Why don't they wash it ?" I expounded to him what an ignorant sinner he was, and that the dirt of ages was one of the surest indications of value. Wash point lace! it would be as bad as cleaning up the antiquary's study. The ladies were in full dress, which here in England means always a dress which exposes the neck and shoulders. This requirement seems to be universal, since ladies of all ages conform to it. It may, perhaps, account for this custom, to say that...
Página 74 - Sidonia had exhausted all the sources of human knowledge ; he was master of the learning of every nation, of all tongues dead or living, of every literature, Western and Oriental. He had pursued the speculations of science to their last term, and had himself illustrated them by observation and experiment.
Página 120 - Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters...
Página 89 - Bright-beaming as the iv'ry-palac'd dream, And melting as the dewy Urns of Dawn. For thee I strike the sounding Lyre of Song, And hymn the Beautiful, the Good, the True,, The dying notes of thankfulness prolong, And light the Beacon-fires of Praise for you. Butter'd Ideal of Life's coarser food ! Thou calm Egeria in a world of strife ! Antigone of crumpets ! mild as good, Decent in death, and beautiful in life ! Fairest where all is fare ! shine on me still, And gild the dark To-Morrow of my days;...
Página 122 - ... will make upon the concurring feelings of the reader the same impressions with those taken foom truth and nature, because they will appear to be derived from that source, and therefore of necessity will have a similar effect. Having thus far presumed to claim for the ensuing pages the rank and title of poetry, I attempt no more, nor venture to class or compare...
Página 53 - ... would be as bad as cleaning up the antiquary's study. The ladies were in full dress, which here in England means always a dress which exposes the neck and shoulders. This requirement seems to be universal, since ladies of all ages conform to it. It may, perhaps, account for this custom, to say that the bust of an English lady is seldom otherwise than fine, and develops a full outline at what we should call quite an advanced period of life. A very dignified...