Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects. By Several Authors: I. Crito: or a dialogue on beauty. II. An account of the Emperor of China's gardens, near Pekin. III. Deformity. By William Hay, Esq. IV. Lucina sine concubitu. Addressed to the Royal Society. V. A modest defence of gaming. VI. The pretty gentleman. VII. The polite philosopher. VIII. Plan of an essay on delicacy |
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Accompliſhments Affection againſt almoſt Apollo Belvedere Beauty becauſe beſt Cafe Caufe Cauſe Charms chooſe Cicero Color Confequence confider Converfation CRITO defigned defire deformed Perfons Delicacy Difpofition diſcover Drefs eafy Efteem Elegance Eunuchs Expreffion Eyes Face faid fame fcarce feems feen feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fometimes foon ftill fuch fuppofe fure give Grace greateſt hath higheſt himſelf Honour Houſe human Inftance itſelf juft juſt Ladies laft laſt leaſt lefs Love Mankind Manner MILESIUS Mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature neceffary never Number obferved Occafion Ovid paffed Paffions paſs perfuaded Philocles Philofopher pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure poffible polite prefent Purpoſe racters raiſed Reaſon refined Reſpect rife ſay ſee ſeems Senfe Senſe ſhall ſhe ſmall ſome Sophronius Sort ſpeak ſuch Tafte Taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe Thouſand Tibullus TIMANTHES tion uſed Vafes Virtue whofe Wiſdom World
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Page 113 - DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of nature.
Page 67 - Flowers, which rife up even through the Hollows in the Rock work, as if they had been produced there naturally.
Page 29 - I believe, it is fo. We know that the Soul is, but we fcarce know what it is ; every Judge of Beauty can point out Grace; but no one that I know of has ever yet fixt upon a Definition for it.
Page 33 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure— Severe, but in true filial freedom placed, Whence true authority in men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
Page 233 - Let not the Smarts of the Univerfity, the Sparks of the Side-boxes, or the genteel Flutterers of the Drawingroom, imagine, that I will deprive them of thofe elevated Enjoyments, drinking Tea with a Toaft, gallanting a Fan, or roving, like a Butterfly, through a Parterre of Beauties. No ; I am far from being the Author of fuch fevere...
Page 122 - Adtions, in order to bring bring down the Perfon envied to his own Level ; but if it is on account of Superiority of Fortune, it will operate alike on Men of all Shapes. Eunuchs have but one peculiar Motive to Envy ? but that (as Lord Bacon exprefles it) makes them envious towards all : becaufe it is for a Pleafure, which all but themfelves may enjoy. Deformed Perfons...
Page 98 - They are not like a venal Borough, of which there goes a Story ; that, though they never took Exceptions to any Man's Character, who came up to their Price ; yet they once rejected the beft Bidder, becaufe he was a Negroe.
Page 30 - Things in which it is moft apt to appear. The chief Dwelling-place of Grace is about the Mouth ; though, at Times, it may vifit every Limb or Part of the Body. But the Mouth is the chief Seat of Grace [*] ; as much as the chief Seat for the Beauty of the Paffions is in the Eyes. In a very graceful Face, by which I do not fo much mean a majeftic, as a foft and...
Page 65 - ... have but little Tafte, or Attention, for whatever he may meet with in the other Parts of the World. However, I muft except, out of this Rule, the Palace of the Emperor of Pekin, and his PleafureHoufes ; for in them every thing is truly great and beautiful...
Page 84 - Yven, the Garden of Gardens ; or the Garden by way of Eminence. It is not the only one that belongs to the Emperor; he has Three others, of the fame Kind ; but none of them fo large, or fo beautiful, as this.