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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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The Burlington: A High-class Monthly Magazine, Volume 1

Helen Mathers - 1881 - 400 pages
...pictures." The majority of men prefer real women to representations. Byron says : I've seen more lovely women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal. Physical beauty, which we have so many opportunities of observing, is what the French significantly...
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Fair Words about Fair Woman

Oliver Bell Bunce - 1883 - 332 pages
...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,...real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal.) And such was she, the lady of the cave : Her dress was very different from the Spanish, Simpler, and...
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Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being Reminiscences During Eighteen Years ...

W. H. Florio Hutchisson - 1883 - 368 pages
...the mind can never be divorced from its recollections of their sweetness, perfection and beauty. " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." At the ghat, full life and activity prevail, nothing interrupts the elastic movements of beautifully...
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Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West ...

Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - 444 pages
...unconscious of in the ribald mood of the moment, when, alluding to the statuary's art, he exclaimed — " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." It is astonishing how difficult of thorough eradication are certain superstitions, if once established...
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Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being Reminiscences During Eighteen Years ...

W. H. Florio Hutchisson - 1883 - 364 pages
...the mind can never be divorced from its recollections of their sweetness, perfection and beauty. " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." At the ghat, full life and activity prevail, nothing interrupts the elastic movements of beautifully...
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Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West ...

Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - 440 pages
...unconscious of in the ribald mood of the moment, when, alluding to the statuary's art, he exclaimed — " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." It is astonishing how difficult of thorough eradication are certain superstitions, if once established...
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Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West ...

Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - 436 pages
...unconscious of in the ribald mood of the moment, when, alluding to the statuary's art, he exclaimed — " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." It is astonishing how difficult of thorough eradication are certain superstitions, if once established...
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Novels, Volume 5

Charles Kingsley - 1884 - 574 pages
...galleries together " — a syllogism of sharp edge, which he would back up by Byron's — " I ' vc seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." But here was one of nature's own pictures, drawn and colored by more than mortal hand, and framed over...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with notes, Volume 10

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 286 pages
...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 done — I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal)....
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Two years ago

Charles Kingsley - 1888 - 520 pages
...all your galleries together" — a syllogism of sharp edge, which he would back up by Byron's — " I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal." But here was one of JJature's own pictures, drawn and coloured by more than mortal hand, and framed...
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