The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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An autumnal beauty , by all who have not husbands ! by cork - screw ringlets , crow - feet , continent neck - dresses , and indigo stockings ! Her slightly corrugated brow is shaded , by some secret sorrow , we naturally and ...
An autumnal beauty , by all who have not husbands ! by cork - screw ringlets , crow - feet , continent neck - dresses , and indigo stockings ! Her slightly corrugated brow is shaded , by some secret sorrow , we naturally and ...
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We would earnestly advise him not to sit for a profile likeness of himself again ; it does not exhibit his beauty to the best advantage , as his forehead and chin do not , to use the language of the modern athletæ , ' come up to the ...
We would earnestly advise him not to sit for a profile likeness of himself again ; it does not exhibit his beauty to the best advantage , as his forehead and chin do not , to use the language of the modern athletæ , ' come up to the ...
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I began my heroine in moderation ; she was simply tall , dark - haired , and finely formed ; but warming as I proceeded with the subject , she became endowed with every beauty of person and charm of mind . Her eye flashed ; her bearing ...
I began my heroine in moderation ; she was simply tall , dark - haired , and finely formed ; but warming as I proceeded with the subject , she became endowed with every beauty of person and charm of mind . Her eye flashed ; her bearing ...
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pathos the energy which would be better bestowed on genial exertion , and console ourselves with the artificial beauty of its expression , or with the vain enjoyment of the romantic morality which it is assumed to involve .
pathos the energy which would be better bestowed on genial exertion , and console ourselves with the artificial beauty of its expression , or with the vain enjoyment of the romantic morality which it is assumed to involve .
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And what consolation , what strength or aid do you bring ; what beauty or hope do you proffer in life ? Better , far better , the muscle and bone and self - reliance of antique heathen sin , than such nerveless , boneless , pulpy non ...
And what consolation , what strength or aid do you bring ; what beauty or hope do you proffer in life ? Better , far better , the muscle and bone and self - reliance of antique heathen sin , than such nerveless , boneless , pulpy non ...
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| Title | The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 59 The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Charles Fenno Hoffman |
| Editors | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew |
| Published | 1862 |
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