 Observe that part of a beautiful woman, where she is perhaps the most beautiful, about the neck and breasts ; the smoothness ; the softness ; the easy and insensible swell ; the variety of the surface, which is never, for the smallest space, the same...  La Belle Assemblée - Pagina 2021811Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pagina’s
...is perhaps the most beautiful, about the neck and breasts ; the smoothness; the softness ; the easy and insensible swell ; the variety of the surface,...giddily, without knowing where to fix or whither it is carried. Is not this a demonstration of that change of surface, continual, and yet hardly perceptible... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 472 pagina’s
...she is perhaps the moat beautiful, about the neck and breasts; the smoothness; the softness; the easy and insensible swell; the variety of the surface,...giddily, without knowing where to fix or whither it is carried. Is not this a demonstration of that change of surface, continual, and yet hardly perceptible... | |
 | Hilario Camino Moncado - 1927 - 82 pagina’s
...she is perhaps the most beautiful about the neck and breasts; the smoothness ; the softness; the easy and insensible swell; the variety of the surface,...giddily, without knowing where to fix or whither it is carried" is an excellent tribute to the beauty of woman by Edmund Burke. CHAPTER HI WOMAN HAS THE... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 538 pagina’s
...perhaps the ! most beautiful, about the neck and breasts; the smoothness; I the softness; the easy and insensible swell; the variety of the surface, which is never for the smallest space the same ; i the deceitful maze, through which the unsteady eye slides I giddily, without knowing where to fix... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 614 pagina’s
...she is perhaps the most beautiful, about the neck and breasts; the smoothness; the softness; the easy and insensible swell; the variety of the surface, which is never for the smallest space the * Part 5. seet. a3.2 This note should read: 'Part 4. sect. a3.' same; the deceitful maze, through which... | |
 | Ronald Schenk - 1992 - 188 pagina’s
...she is perhaps the most beautiful, about the neck and breasts; the smoothness; the softness; the easy and insensible swell; the variety of the surface,...giddily, without knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried. (Italics mine)25 The beauty of women is considerably owing to their weakness, or delicacy,... | |
 | Frances Ferguson - 1992 - 198 pagina’s
...she is perhaps the most beautiful, about the neck and breasts; the smoothness; the softness; the easy and insensible swell; the variety of the surface,...giddily, without knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried. [ 1 15] If we find a beheaded woman as the epitome of beauty, her deceit is not less powerful... | |
 | Elizabeth Wilson - 1992 - 216 pagina’s
...For Burke beauty consists in smallness, smoothness and gradual variation, in 'the deceitful image, through which the unsteady eye slides giddily, without knowing where to fix or whither it is carried'. Delicacy and fragility are 'essential' to his idea of beauty. The sublime and the beautiful... | |
 | Anne Kostelanetz Mellor - 1993 - 292 pagina’s
...she is perhaps the most beautiful, about the neck and breasts; the smoothness; the softness; the easy and insensible swell; the variety of the surface,...giddily, without knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried. (216) Burke specifies two further dimensions of this ideal, eroticised, maternal beauty:... | |
 | Jules David Law - 1993 - 282 pagina’s
...she is perhaps the most beautiful, about the neck and breasts; the smoothness; the softness; the easy and insensible swell; the variety of the surface,...giddily, without knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried. Is not this a demonstration of that change of surface continual and yet hardly perceptible... | |
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