Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations, Historic and National PeculiaritiesMacmillan, 1887 - 560 pàgines |
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Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal ..., Volum 1 Henry T. Finck Visualització completa - 1887 |
Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations ... Henry T. Finck Visualització completa - 1887 |
Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal ..., Volum 1 Henry T. Finck Visualització completa - 1887 |
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admiration æsthetic affection American amorous ancient ancient Greeks animals ANNIE KEARY appear become birds blondes blush brunettes charms civilised colour commonly complexion conjugal courtship Coyness dancing Darwin emotions English especially expression eyes face fact Fashion favour feeling female feminine forehead French gait Gallantry genius German girls Goethe graceful Greek habit hair hand heart Hence human husband imagination individual inspired instinct intellectual Italian Jealousy kiss ladies less lips look lover lower male man's marriage marry masculine mind modern Modern Love muscles nations natural Natural Selection negro never nose Ovid parents passion Personal Beauty Petrarch physiognomy Plato pleasure poet poetic polygamy prefer primitive Professor races reason refined regarding remarks Romantic Love savages says Schopenhauer seen sense Sexual Selection Shakspere Sir John Lubbock skin soul superior taste tion traits Troubadours true ugly wife woman women young youth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 5 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Pàgina 154 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Pàgina 239 - It is the hardest thing in the world to be in love, and yet attend business. As for me, all who speak to me find me out, and I must lock myself up, or other people will do it for me. " A gentleman asked me this morning, ' What news from Lisbon ? ' and I answered,
Pàgina 460 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering.
Pàgina vii - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Pàgina 169 - Why may I not speak of your Beauty, since without that I could never have lov'd you ? I cannot conceive any beginning of such love as I have for you but Beauty. There may be a sort of love for which, without the least sneer at it, I have the highest respect and can admire it in others; but it has not the richness, the bloom, the full form, the enchantment of love after my...
Pàgina 197 - You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest. In my fifteenth autumn my partner was a bewitching creature, a year younger than myself. My scarcity of English denies me the power of doing her justice in that language ; but you know the Scottish idiom — she was a bonnie., tweet, sonsie lass.
Pàgina 330 - If beautiful objects had been created solely for man's gratification, it ought to be shown that before man appeared, there was less beauty on the face of the earth than since he came on the stage. Were the beautiful volute and cone shells of the Eocene epoch, and the gracefully sculptured ammonites of the Secondary period, created that man might ages afterwards admire them in his cabinet?
Pàgina 240 - I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your Loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
Pàgina 506 - Morally, as well as materially, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding, than in their fair descendants...