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Theory of Painting (1773) [ Concepts ]
… of good sense appear to have a competency, a wise man to be more wise, and a brave man to be more so, a modest, discreet woman to have an air something angelical, and so of the rest; and then to add that joy, or peace of mind at least, and in … The late Duke of Buckingham when he heard a lady commended for her goodness, swore she was ugly; because beauty being a woman's top-character, he concluded that would have been insisted on if there was any ground for it. A painter should …
Painting | Beauty
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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… hither, too, From far, with basket, slung upon her arm, Of hawker's wares—books, pictures, combs, and pins— Some aged woman finds her way again, Year after year, a punctual visitant! There also stands a speech-maker by rote, Pulling the …
Poetry | Friendship | Beauty
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The New Bath Guide (1766) [ Practices / Places / People ]
… go; For as SOLOMON says, you may safely uphold, He ne'er will depart from the same when he's old. No doubt she's a Woman of fine Understanding, Her Air and her Presence there's something so grand in; So wise and discreet; and to give Her her Due, Dear Mother, she's just such a Woman as you. But who is that Bombazine Lady so gay, So profuse of her Beauties, in sable Array? [Page 79] How she rests …
Beauty
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Gentleman's Magazine Grubstreet Journal (1731) [ Concepts ]
… by short, bristly hair, and effeminacy by long. The French on the contrary, dress the man in the longest hair, and the woman with hardly any. Allows the French to have succeeded in the female headdress. Says, there cannot be a better …
Dress | Fashion | Beauty | France
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… Jones has argued that the new thoughts on sociability and femininity were embodied by the ‘spectacle of a virtuous woman’. 5 Likewise, Morag Martin has suggested that ‘the physical and moral nature of femininity’ allowed women to … sixth duke of Hamilton (1724–1758) on 14 February 1752. Although beauty presented a means to identify the quality of a woman, it was increasingly considered as a secondary and, most significantly, separate concern to a good moral character. … name Elizabeth Hamilton, duchess of Hamilton and Brandon]’, ODNB, 2005, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/11744. […] no Woman can be handsome by the Force of Features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the Help of Speech. [...] …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… but it leads him to his death since he is killed when trying to enter a convent in which he wanted to meet the young woman he was trying to seduce. Once again, it was not his nature, he was enticed by a friend to follow the young woman (Gilpin, Letter-Writer , 61). Among the other bad habits identified in company, many men swear (17, 127, 131) and …
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