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" Her brow was white and low, her cheek's pure dye Like twilight rosy still with the set sun ; Short upper lip— sweet lips ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary, (A race of mere impostors, when all's... "
The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron - Page 35
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...set sun ; Short upper Tip — sweet lips! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one ite head, and felt the breath of May. Some from the greenhouse ranged exotics round, To bask in [Haidee Visits the Shipwrecked Don Juan.] And down the cliff the island virgin came, And near the cave...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...set sun ; Short upper lip — sweet lips! that make us sigh Ever to have Men such ; for she was one with a pension of L.300 per annum. In April 1843 he was appointed poetlau — Гте ieen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). [llftidee...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 42

1854 - 696 pages
...her hands than artists. " As for Madonnas and Venuses, I think with Byron — I've seen more splendid women ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal. This quotation from a very wicked poein, ,-ц the Marthas and Dorcases of our strict secta rian circles...
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New York Illustrated Magazine Annual

1847 - 592 pages
...Ever to have seen such ; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary, (A mee of mere imposteis, when all's done — I've seen much finer women, ripe...real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal.) *•***• " Her dress was many color'd, finely spun ; Her locks curl'd negligently round her face,...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 54

1849 - 508 pages
...the efforts of art, transcendant though they be. We exclaim, as Byron sang with truth and power — " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." Women as they are, then, are divided by Mr. Alexander Walker into three classes— the locomotive,...
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Don Juan, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...lips ! that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one Fit for the model of a statuary, I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). ' I'll tell you why I say so, for 't is just One should not rail without a decent cause : There was...
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Cigars and tobacco, wine, and women, as they are, by a modern Epicurean

Cigars - 1849 - 134 pages
...efforts of art, transcendant though they be. We exclaim, as Byron sang with truth and power — " I 've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." Women as they are, then, are divided by Mr. Alexander Walker into three classes — the locomotive,...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...; i Short upper lip— eweet lipsl that make us sigh Ever to have seen such ; for she was one , Tit teen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal). [Uaidee Visits the...
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The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe: Constituting a ..., Volume 2

William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - 1852 - 486 pages
...the same thing which he may find in nature ; and Lord Byron was of the same opinion when he said : " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of the stone ideal." That, however, is Ehrensvard's theory, and what is singular enough, he has omitted...
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Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 446 pages
...household firesides ; and as for Madonnas and Venuses, I think with Byron, — " I've seen more splendid women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal."' Still, I long for the full advent of our American day of art, already dawning auspiciously. After finishing...
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