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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… all without regard As both may seem, are fastening on the heart Insensibly, each with the other's help. For me, when my affections first were led From kindred, friends, and playmates, to partake Love for the human creature's absolute self, … joy, even then— And upwards through late youth, until not less Than two-and-twenty summers had been told— Was Man in my affections and regards Subordinate to her, her visible forms And viewless agencies: a passion, she, A rapture often, and … slow with something heavenly fraught. Add also, that among the multitudes Of that huge city, oftentimes was seen Affectingly set forth, more than elsewhere Is possible, the unity of man, One spirit over ignorance and vice Predominant, …
Poetry | Friendship | Beauty
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… considered in terms of their relationship with physical attractiveness, beauty was still being understood as a quality affected by a person’s inner state, but not entirely dependent upon it. But while many commentators assumed there was a … consent with the Mind doth epitomise as it were the comeliness and dignity of all the other parts, and exhibits their affections as in a Glass. For from it are not only taken signs of health, diseases, and imminent death; but also most clear tokens of the very disposition, manners and affections of the Mind. 3 G ibson medicalised the interpretation of facial beauty as a sign of a person’s ‘manners’. For …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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