Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c. from Writers of All Ages and Both Hemispheres |
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... Beauty , that it consists in a Symmetry of which we know not the rules , and a secret Conformity of the Features to each other , and to the air and complexion of the Person . Aims . -Kant . WHAT are the Aims , which are at the same time ...
... Beauty , that it consists in a Symmetry of which we know not the rules , and a secret Conformity of the Features to each other , and to the air and complexion of the Person . Aims . -Kant . WHAT are the Aims , which are at the same time ...
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... Beauty , And you shall see ' tis purchased by the weight ; Which therein works a miracle in Nature , Making them lightest that wear most of it : So are those crisped snaky golden locks , Which make such wanton gambols with the wind ...
... Beauty , And you shall see ' tis purchased by the weight ; Which therein works a miracle in Nature , Making them lightest that wear most of it : So are those crisped snaky golden locks , Which make such wanton gambols with the wind ...
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... beauty ; in a word , The seeming Truth which cunning Times put on To entrap the wisest . Appearances . — La Rochefoucauld . -- IN all the professions every one affects a particular look and ex- terior , in order to appear what he wishes ...
... beauty ; in a word , The seeming Truth which cunning Times put on To entrap the wisest . Appearances . — La Rochefoucauld . -- IN all the professions every one affects a particular look and ex- terior , in order to appear what he wishes ...
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... Beauty.Shakspeare . FOR her own Person , It beggar'd all Description ; she did lie In her pavilion , O'erpicturing that Venus , where we see , The Fancy out - work Nature . Beauty . - Byron . AN Eye's an Eye , and whether black or blue ...
... Beauty.Shakspeare . FOR her own Person , It beggar'd all Description ; she did lie In her pavilion , O'erpicturing that Venus , where we see , The Fancy out - work Nature . Beauty . - Byron . AN Eye's an Eye , and whether black or blue ...
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... Beauty . Sir A. Hunt . - WHAT is Beauty ? Not the Show Of shapely Limbs and Features . No. These are but flowers That have their dated hours To breathe their momentary Sweets , then go . ' Tis the stainless Soul within That outshines ...
... Beauty . Sir A. Hunt . - WHAT is Beauty ? Not the Show Of shapely Limbs and Features . No. These are but flowers That have their dated hours To breathe their momentary Sweets , then go . ' Tis the stainless Soul within That outshines ...
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