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Pagina 37 - Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad: She as a veil down to the slender waist Her unadorned golden tresses wore Dishevelled, but in wanton ringlets waved As the vine curls her tendrils, which implied Subjection, but required with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best received, Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
Pagina 38 - Their beards extravagant, reform'd must be ; Some with the quadrate, some triangle fashion, Some circular, some oval in translation ; Some perpendicular in longitude ; Some like a thicket for their crassitude ; That heights, depths, breadths, triform, square, oval, round, And rules geometrical in beards are found.
Pagina 38 - Bush natural, more hair than wit. Some seem as they were starched stiff and fine. Like to the bristles of some angry swine : And some (to set their Love's desire on edge) Arc cut and pruned like to a quickset hedge.
Pagina 131 - ... one good and sufficient wig, yearly, and every year, for, and during, and unto the expiration, of the full end, and term, of his apprenticeship.
Pagina 12 - ... all the rights and capacities of a natural-born British subject, except the capacity of being a member of the Privy Council or a member of either House of Parliament, and except the rights and capacities (if any) specially excepted in and by such certificate.
Pagina 96 - In the new number — the second — of The Anthropological Review, and Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, there is a very interesting paper, by Dr. John Beddoe, which seems to show that the preference which English poets and English painters have always manifested for fair hair rather than for dark is not shared by the mass of the English people, and that fair hair is consequently becoming every day less and less prevalent in England. The increase of dark hair in this country was...
Pagina 58 - how careful the Persians are of this ornament : all the young men sigh for it, and grease their chins to hasten the growth of the hairs ; because, until they have there a respectable covering, they are not supposed fit to enjoy any place of trust
Pagina 96 - England) a much better chance of getting married than a fair-haired woman has — the proportion of fairhaired women who fail to find husbands being to that of dark-haired women who similarly fail as three to two ; but also that, among dark-haired women themselves, the chances of marriage are in proportion to the degree of the darkness of the hair. Thus, of the women with dark-brown hair who came under his observation, 22 per cent. were single, while of the women with black hair only 18 per cent,...
Pagina 38 - With their rich locks, or his own Delphic wreath. There seems a love in hair, though it be dead. It is the gentlest, yet the strongest thread Of our frail plant, — a blossom from the tree Surviving the proud trunk ; — as though it said, Patience and Gentleness is Power. In me Behold affectionate eternity.
Pagina 96 - dark." Of the 367 fair-haired women, however, 32 per cent, were single, while of the 369 dark-haired women only 21'6 per cent, were single. It would thus appear that a greater proportion of fair-haired women than of dark-haired women " live and die unmarried and without offspring," and so that the increasing prevalence of dark hair among us is due to what — slightly varying the phrase which Dr. Darwin has rendered so familiar — Dr. Beddoe calls

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