 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - Authors, English - 1792 - 292 pages
...eager admiration, which feemed to abforb all the faculties of his mind. She was, indeed, an obje& not to be contemplated with indifference. Her beauty, touched with the languid delicacy of illnefs, gained from fentiment what it loft in bloom. The negligence of her drefs, Joofened for the... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...eager admiration, which seemed to absorb all the faculties of his mind. She was, indeed, an object not to be contemplated with indifference. Her beauty,...loosened for the purpose of freer respiration, discovered the graces which her auburn tresses that fell in profusion over her bosom, shaded, but could not conceal.... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - English fiction - 1825 - 236 pages
...eager admiration, which seemed to absorb all the faculties of his mind. She was, indeed, an object not to be contemplated with indifference. Her beauty,...profusion over her bosom shaded, but could not conceal. On perceiving him, a blush of quick surprise passed over her cheek, for she knew him to be the stranger... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 836 pages
...eager admiration, which seemed to absorb all the faculties of bis mind. She was indeed an object not to be contemplated with indifference. Her beauty,...respiration, discovered those glowing charms, which In r auburn tresses, that fell in profusion over her" bosom, shaded, but could not conceal. There now... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 1877 - 696 pages
...eager admiration which seemed to absorb all the faculties of his mind. She was indeed an object not to be contemplated with indifference. Her beauty,...loosened for the purpose of freer respiration, discovered the graces which her auburn tresses, fliat fell in profusion over her bosom, shaded, but could not... | |
 | Janet Todd - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 340 pages
...grace upon her features, that appealed immediately to the heart,' the narrator declares of Adeline, and 'her beauty, touched with the languid delicacy of...negligence of her dress, loosened for the purpose of free respiration, discovered those glowing charms, which her auburn tresses, that fell in profusion... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 256 pages
...household, she faints, once again becoming "an object not to be contemplated with indifference" (RF 87): "Her beauty, touched with the languid delicacy of...profusion over her bosom, shaded, but could not conceal" (RF 87). Obviously, Adeline's "glowing charms" solicit not reason, not sexually neutral "humanity"... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - Authors and printing - 1996 - 258 pages
...enters the abbey, Adeline faints, and her beauty "touched with the languid delicacy of illness ... the negligence of her dress, loosened for the purpose of freer respiration" becomes the object upon which "he gazed with an eager admiration, which seemed to absorb all the faculties... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - Europe - 1999 - 436 pages
...eager admiration, which seemed to absorb all the faculties of his mind. She was, indeed, an object not to be contemplated with indifference. Her beauty,...having spoken hastily to the elder, joined the general groupe that surrounded Adeline. He was of a person, in which elegance was happily blended with strength,... | |
 | Rictor Norton - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 329 pages
...have revealed' (vol. 2, 132). Similarly, in The Romance of the Forest: 'The negligence of [Adeline's] dress, loosened for the purpose of freer respiration,...profusion over her bosom, shaded, but could not conceal' (87). These are characteristic instances of what feminists today call 'the male gaze' - though here... | |
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Upon Adeline, who was yet insensible, he gazed with an eager admiration, which seemed to absorb all the faculties of his mind. She was, indeed, an object not to be contemplated with indifference. Her beauty, touched with the languid delicacy of illness,... 