... woman alive is beauty incomplete. To see such a face as this set on shoulders that a sculptor would have longed to model — to be charmed by the modest graces of action through which the symmetrical limbs betrayed their beauty when they moved, and... The Woman in White - Página 15por Wilkie Collins - 1861 - 572 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Dickens - 1860 - 630 páginas
...incomplete. To see such a face as this set on shoulders that a sculptor would have longed to model — to be charmed by the modest graces of action through which the symmetrical limbs betrayed their beanty when they moved, and then to be almost repelled by the masculine form and masculine look of... | |
| Catherine Gallagher, Thomas Laqueur - 1987 - 264 páginas
...incomplete. To see such a face as this set on shoulders that a sculptor would have longed to model — to be charmed by the modest graces of action through...form and masculine look of the features in which the perfectly shaped figure ended — was to feel a sensation oddly akin to the helpless discomfort familiar... | |
| Philip O'Neill - 1988 - 262 páginas
...incomplete. To see such a face as this set on shoulders that a sculptor would have longed to model - to be charmed by the modest graces of action through...helpless discomfort familiar to us all in sleep, when we recognise yet cannot reconcile the anomalies and contradictions of a dream.67 The shocking climax to... | |
| Elizabeth Langland - 1995 - 292 páginas
...moustache," and "a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw," Marian ultimately repels the hero by her anomalies, "by the masculine form and masculine look of the features in which the perfectly-shaped figure ended" (25). Rejecting the frank sexuality he reads in Marian's face, Walter initiates a triangulation of... | |
| Ann Gaylin - 2002 - 264 páginas
...incomplete. To see such a face as this set on shoulders that a sculptor would have longed to model - to be charmed by the modest graces of action through...form and masculine look of the features in which the perfectly shaped figure ended - was to feel a sensation oddly akin to the helpless discomfort familiar... | |
| Maria K. Bachman, Don Richard Cox - 2003 - 424 páginas
...incomplete. To see such a face as this set on shoulders that a sculptor would have longed to model — to be charmed by the modest graces of action through...form and masculine look of the features in which the perfectly shaped figure ended — was to feel a sensation oddly akin to the helpless discomfort familiar... | |
| Richard Fantina - 2006 - 275 páginas
...a moustache," and that she has "a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw" (35). Walter's reaction is "to be almost repelled by the masculine form and masculine look of the features in which the perfectly shaped figure ended" (35), but Fosco's response is very different. He apostrophizes her as... | |
| Katharina Stricharz - 2007 - 93 páginas
...semantische Feld 'männlich' beziehen. Folgende Beispiele aus WW illustrieren dieses Faktum: „[I was] almost repelled by the masculine form and masculine look of the features in which the perfectly shaped figure ended (...)." 1 ; „She caught me with both hands - she pressed them with... | |
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