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Strong light and shade will portray character , though they mar beauty . Rougher skin , less glossy hair , Crimean moustaches and beard overshadowing the white under lip , and deeper lines , are all so much in favour of a picturesque ...
Strong light and shade will portray character , though they mar beauty . Rougher skin , less glossy hair , Crimean moustaches and beard overshadowing the white under lip , and deeper lines , are all so much in favour of a picturesque ...
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It has consequently become somewhat the fashion to speak of them as of the pure Caucasian stock , and to accept them as the type of human perfection in physical beauty and intellectual development . It is not our intention to enter upon ...
It has consequently become somewhat the fashion to speak of them as of the pure Caucasian stock , and to accept them as the type of human perfection in physical beauty and intellectual development . It is not our intention to enter upon ...
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It would be difficult to describe the exquisite beauty of some of the women of the Eelyaut , or wandering tribes , as well as of the southern cities - a beauty which is unfortunately much disfigured by the artifices of a corrupt taste ...
It would be difficult to describe the exquisite beauty of some of the women of the Eelyaut , or wandering tribes , as well as of the southern cities - a beauty which is unfortunately much disfigured by the artifices of a corrupt taste ...
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Henry Bradbury with full descriptions of their different | 57 |
Odyssea London 1849 | 80 |
Character of the Rat and its cruel Cost to the Nation | 123 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 101 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1857 |
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