 | 1844 - 836 pagine
...the love of beauty, because this beauty is little more than an emanation of intellectual excellence. As it excites a purer passion, it also more forcibly...restrained from giving pain to goodness than to beauty, and the purpose immediately appears to be disingenuous and cruel, by which the tender hope of ineffable... | |
 | Robert W. Jones - 1998 - 290 pagine
...beauty is little more than the emanation of intellectual excellence, which is not an object of corporeal appetite. As it excites a purer passion, it also more forcibly engages to fidelity: Everyman finds himself more powerfully restrained from giving pain to goodness, than to beauty; and... | |
 | Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - 2000 - 348 pagine
...beauty is little more than the emanation of intellectual excellence, which is not an object of corporeal appetite. As it excites a purer passion, it also more...expression of goodness, is a silent reproach of the irregular wish. ''" A charming physical appearance is presented here as a figure of constancy and virtue.... | |
 | 1791 - 668 pagine
...more powerfully reltrained from- giving pain to good i. • - than to beauty ; and every 4 B to]f. look oF a countenance in which they are blended, in which beauty is the expreflion of goodnefs, is a filent reproach of the firft irregular •with, and the purpofe immediately... | |
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The love of reason and of virtue is mingled with the love of beauty; because this beauty is little more than the emanation of intellectual excellence, which is not an object of corporeal appetite. As it excites a purer passion, it also more forcibly engages... 
