Sanders' Young Ladies' Reader: Embracing a Comprehensive Course of Instruction in the Principles of Rhetorical Reading : with a Choice Collection of Exercises in Reading, Both in Prose and Poetry, for the Use of the Higher Female Seminaries, as Also, the Higher Classes in Female Schools Generally |
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THE SENSE OF BEAUTY . WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING . 1. BEAUTY is an all - pervading presence . It unfolds in the numberless flowers of the spring . It waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass .
THE SENSE OF BEAUTY . WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING . 1. BEAUTY is an all - pervading presence . It unfolds in the numberless flowers of the spring . It waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass .
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THE BEAU - IDEAL is the idea , or conception of what is perfect ; an image , in the mind , of beauty without blemish or deformity of any kind . 2. THE VENUS OF FLORENCE is a celebrated statue of the goddess Venus , in the imperial ...
THE BEAU - IDEAL is the idea , or conception of what is perfect ; an image , in the mind , of beauty without blemish or deformity of any kind . 2. THE VENUS OF FLORENCE is a celebrated statue of the goddess Venus , in the imperial ...
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And , if we cast back upon all the faces we have most admired , we will be apt to confess , in regard to most of them , that it was not perfect beauty , but only some approach to it , that we were delighted with .
And , if we cast back upon all the faces we have most admired , we will be apt to confess , in regard to most of them , that it was not perfect beauty , but only some approach to it , that we were delighted with .
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