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Page 86
... beauty was striking . But there was in his countenance more than beauty ; for the sombreness of his expression , almost surly in moments of repose , his large dark eyes , almond and shaped like those of an Oriental , his red lips ...
... beauty was striking . But there was in his countenance more than beauty ; for the sombreness of his expression , almost surly in moments of repose , his large dark eyes , almond and shaped like those of an Oriental , his red lips ...
Page 339
... beauty for us indefinitely . We know it doesn't . We get tired of it . Familiarity breeds not contempt perhaps , but indifference ; and indifference is the death of the æsthetic emotion .滦 Beauty is a value , whatever its object may be ...
... beauty for us indefinitely . We know it doesn't . We get tired of it . Familiarity breeds not contempt perhaps , but indifference ; and indifference is the death of the æsthetic emotion .滦 Beauty is a value , whatever its object may be ...
Page 340
... beauty may be considered absolute they are apt to mention Shake- speare , Beethoven ( or Bach if they are highbrows ) ... beauty is not , as Keats said , a joy for ever ; it is a thing that excites in us a peculiar emotion at a particular ...
... beauty may be considered absolute they are apt to mention Shake- speare , Beethoven ( or Bach if they are highbrows ) ... beauty is not , as Keats said , a joy for ever ; it is a thing that excites in us a peculiar emotion at a particular ...
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