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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… used to advocate and challenge established moral virtues, cultural beliefs and women’s self-creation. Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Aesthetics Beauty Conduct Femininity Manners Women ‘Female beauty’, wrote Oliver Goldsmith in An History of the Earth (1776), ‘is always seen to improve … Could a person be beautiful without being beautiful on the inside? When issues of virtue, morality, sensibility, and manners were considered in terms of their relationship with physical attractiveness, beauty was still being understood as …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… no longer grow: The times, too sage, perhaps too proud, have dropped These lighter graces; and the rural ways And manners which my childhood looked upon Were the unluxuriant produce of a life Intent on little but substantial needs, Yet … by their help. And thus Was founded a sure safeguard and defence Against the weight of meanness, selfish cares, Coarse manners, vulgar passions, that beat in On all sides from the ordinary world In which we traffic. Starting from this point … from day to day, with temporal shapes Of vice and folly thrust upon my view, Objects of sport, and ridicule, and scorn, Manners and characters discriminate, And little bustling passions that eclipse, As well they might, the impersonated …
Poetry | Friendship | Beauty
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The New Bath Guide (1766) [ Practices / Places / People ]
… be flog'd by a Tyrant for Latin and Greek; She wonders that Parents to Eton should send Five Hundred great Boobies their Manners to mend: She says that her Son will his Fortune advance, By learning so early to fiddle and dance; So she brings …
Beauty
Anthology
William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… —to explore the culture of soils — to view the curiosities of art — to survey the beauties of nature — and to learn the manners of men; their different polities, and modes of life. / The following little work proposes a new object of …
Animals | Beauty | Correspondence | Death | Education | Nature | Philanthropy | Picturesque | Religion | Unsociability
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