Crito: Or, A Dialogue on Beauty |
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almoft Apollo Belvedere appear Beauty becauſe beft beſt Body Caufe Cauſe charming chufe Cicero conftituent CRITO Decens Deformity Drefs Expreffion expreft Eyebrows Eyes Face faid fame manner fame Thing feem feem'd feen feveral fhall fhould be white fineſt firft fmall foft fome fome Degree fome Occafions fomething fometimes foon fpeaking fuch fuperior fure give Goodneſs Grace greateſt handfome Head Heaven higheſt Horace humeri Inftance itſelf Judgment juft Juvenal Ladies laft Laocoon leaſt lefs loft Look Love Luftre majeſtic MILESIUS Modefty moft Motion muft muſt Nature Neck neral nihil obferved Ovid Paffions particular Perfon perhaps pleafing Pleafingnefs pleaſe Pleaſure Poets poffibly pretty Reaſon reſt Roman ſeems ſeen Shape Skin ſmall Softnefs Sorts Statius ſtrongly Syftem thefe thofe thoſe Tibullus TIMANTHES tion Titian Turn ufed univerfal uſed Venus of Medici Virgil Virtue Vols wiſh Woman worfe World
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Page 47 - Stud in a noble Piece of mofaic Work. And yet all the Profufion of Beauty I have been fpeaking of, and even that of the whole Univerfe taken together, is but of a weaker Nature in Comparifon of the Beauty of Virtue.
Page 28 - Though Grace is fo difficult to be accounted for in general ; yet I have obferv'd Two particular things, which (I think) hold univerfally in relation to it. The firft is : " That there is no Grace, without Motion...
Page 27 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure— Severe, but in true filial freedom placed, Whence true authority in men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
Page 28 - In beauty, that of favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour.
Page 16 - Group of Laocoon, and in the Toes of the dying Gladiator. But this again is often loft among us by our Drefs ; and indeed is of the lefs Concern, becaufe the Expreflion of the Paflions pafles chiefly in the Face, which we (by good Luck) have not as yet concealed.
Page 19 - Sweetnefs ; each of which, when taken fingly, is very pleafing ; but when they arc all blended together, in fuch a Manner as either to enliven or correct each other, they give almoft as much Attraction, as the Paffions are capable of adding to a very pretty Face. The prevailing Paffion in the Venus of Medici is MoJefty : It is expreft by each of her Hands, in her Looks, and in the Turn of her Head.
Page 30 - Impropriety ;" or, in other Words, that nothing can be graceful, that is not adapted to ths Characters of the Perfon.
Page 24 - Paflions ; and means kind or favourable, pofuion pofition of the whole Body ; but how much more it belongs to the Head, than to any other Part, may be feen in the Pieces of the moft celebrated Painters; and particularly, in thofe of...
Page 45 - Fires that dart and waver upwards, fometimes in various Colors, and fometimes with Streams of gentle Light, not unlike the Break of Day, on the firft Appearance of the Morning, from whence they have their Name. If we turn toward the different Sorts of Animals, it is obfervable enough among them, that the Beauty which is defigned chiefly to pleafe one another in their own Species, is fo contrived as to diffufe Pleafure to thofe of other Species, or at leaft to Man. How beautiful, even to us, are the...
Page 13 - The Hair, either bright, black, or brown ; not thin, but full and waving ; and if it falls in moderate Curls, the better. The Black is particularly ufeful for fetting off the Whitenefs of the Neck and Skin.