Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 35
... beauty of exqui- site proportion --- of the vague apprehension inspired by gigantic bulk --- and of that lingering homage still attaching itself to whatever has been once associated with the noblest and most solemn affections of the ...
... beauty of exqui- site proportion --- of the vague apprehension inspired by gigantic bulk --- and of that lingering homage still attaching itself to whatever has been once associated with the noblest and most solemn affections of the ...
Page 39
... beauty , that the world perhaps ever produced ; for a female stood before me , whose dignified yet bewitching demea- nour entirely rivetted my attention . Though no longer in the first bloom of youth , and with a com- plexion enriched ...
... beauty , that the world perhaps ever produced ; for a female stood before me , whose dignified yet bewitching demea- nour entirely rivetted my attention . Though no longer in the first bloom of youth , and with a com- plexion enriched ...
Page 48
... beauty of the statues within the temple , where both were to be .com- bined ! Conceive the stupendous symmetry of the Minerva , thirty - nine feet high - the still more majestic proportions of the Olympian Jupiter , executed for the ...
... beauty of the statues within the temple , where both were to be .com- bined ! Conceive the stupendous symmetry of the Minerva , thirty - nine feet high - the still more majestic proportions of the Olympian Jupiter , executed for the ...
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... beauty sigh'd , Spite of the guardian dragon's yell , Smote the black giant grim and fell , Rescued the nymph from wizard spell , And claim'd the blushing bride.- Alas ! no fancy - woven wreaths Their perfume o'er my pathway shed , And ...
... beauty sigh'd , Spite of the guardian dragon's yell , Smote the black giant grim and fell , Rescued the nymph from wizard spell , And claim'd the blushing bride.- Alas ! no fancy - woven wreaths Their perfume o'er my pathway shed , And ...
Page 63
... beauty upon whom Lord Ches- terfield had written the well - known song --- Fair Kitty , beautiful and young , And wild as colts untamed- But there is one pang , and an agonizing one it is , from which bachelors are happily exempt ...
... beauty upon whom Lord Ches- terfield had written the well - known song --- Fair Kitty , beautiful and young , And wild as colts untamed- But there is one pang , and an agonizing one it is , from which bachelors are happily exempt ...
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