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... Beauty Here, Day 1 | 1 There is Beauty in the Way He Cares for His Creation, Day 2 | 3 There is Beauty in Redemption, Day 3 | 5 There is Beauty in the Battle, Day 4 | 7 There is Beauty in Confession, Day 5 | 10 There is Beauty in ...
... Beauty Here, Day 1 | 1 There is Beauty in the Way He Cares for His Creation, Day 2 | 3 There is Beauty in Redemption, Day 3 | 5 There is Beauty in the Battle, Day 4 | 7 There is Beauty in Confession, Day 5 | 10 There is Beauty in ...
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... BEAUTY Human beauty is something which is perennially celebrated in poetry, in song, in romance, and in the petrified conception of the sculptor, but less frequently considered in the ... Beauty, as I hope to The Significance of Beauty ...
... BEAUTY Human beauty is something which is perennially celebrated in poetry, in song, in romance, and in the petrified conception of the sculptor, but less frequently considered in the ... Beauty, as I hope to The Significance of Beauty ...
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... beauty , either their own beauty , or that of another . Importantly , I do not necessarily read these presentations or interrogations of beauty as direct statements of the author's own aesthetic positions . As de Man himself notes ...
... beauty , either their own beauty , or that of another . Importantly , I do not necessarily read these presentations or interrogations of beauty as direct statements of the author's own aesthetic positions . As de Man himself notes ...
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... beauty.1 Una Stannard's " Mask of Beauty , " published in one of the earliest second - wave feminist anthologies , Woman in Sexist Society ( 1971 ) , provides ( along with sec- tions in Germaine Greer's Female Eunuch and Shulamith ...
... beauty.1 Una Stannard's " Mask of Beauty , " published in one of the earliest second - wave feminist anthologies , Woman in Sexist Society ( 1971 ) , provides ( along with sec- tions in Germaine Greer's Female Eunuch and Shulamith ...
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... Beauty ! BEAUTY . The boy told me . I'm to take my father's place in your palace . BEAST . Yes . You do this willingly ? BEAUTY . Willingly . POPPA . Oh , Beauty . BEAUTY . I can only be brave if you are . Besides , my lady will watch ...
... Beauty ! BEAUTY . The boy told me . I'm to take my father's place in your palace . BEAST . Yes . You do this willingly ? BEAUTY . Willingly . POPPA . Oh , Beauty . BEAUTY . I can only be brave if you are . Besides , my lady will watch ...
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Page 258 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 258 - Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm A seeming mermaid steers : the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthroned i...
Page 258 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange, invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthroned in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
Page 122 - Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.