Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in WomanWalker, Alexander
Philosophy
Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman
Walker, Alexander
Beauty, Personal; Women
CHAPTER XIV.--Third Species of Beauty: Beauty of the Thinking
System 225
First Variety or Modification of this Species of
Beauty 226
Second Variety or Modification of this Species
of Beauty 227
Third Variety or Modification of this Species of
Beauty 229
CHAPTER XV.--Beauty of the Face in particular 233
CHAPTER XVI.--Combinations and Transitions of the Three
Species of Female Beauty 254
CHAPTER XVII.--Proportion, Character, Expression, &c. 259
CHAPTER XVIII.--The Greek Ideal Beauty 280
CHAPTER XIX.--The Ideal of Female Beauty 307
CHAPTER XX.--Defects of Beauty 320
Defects of the Locomotive System 320
Defects of the Vital System 323
Defects of the Mental System 327
CHAPTER XXI.--External Indications, or Art of Determining the
precise Figure, the degree of Beauty, the Mind,
the Habits, and the Age of Women, notwithstanding
the Aids and Disguises of Dress 329
External Indications of Figure 329
External Indications of Beauty 332
External Indications of Mind 335
External Indications of Habits 337
External Indications of Age 339
Appendix 343
PRELIMINARY ESSAY,
BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR.
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear:
* * * * *
Death hath no power yet upon thy beauty--
Thou art not conquered; beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson on thy lips, and in thy cheeks.--SHAKSPEARE.
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