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  • According to my ideas, beauty is only form, for that which is not beautiful is that which has no form, and the deformed is the opposite of the 'pulchrum' and

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 14: Switzerland Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • According to my ideas, beauty is only form, for that which is not beautiful is that which has no form, and the deformed is the opposite of the 'pulchrum' and

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • Several island endemic butterflies including Papilio homerus, Eurytides marcellinus and many of the more than 500 endemic species of Jamaican landsnails such as species of Pleurodonte and Annularian pulchrum are found in this ecoregion.

    Jamaican dry forests 2008

  • Formosam Barbari verentur, et ad spectum pulchrum immanis animus mansuescit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Miror et stupeo cum coelum aspicio et pulchritudinem siderum, angelorum, &c. et quis digne laudet quod an nobis viget, corpus tam pulchrum, frontem pulchram, nares, genas, oculos, in ellectum, omnia pulchra; si sic in creaturis laboramus; quid in ipso deo?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Omnia appetunt bonum, all creatures seek the best, and for their good as they hope, sub specie, in show at least, vel quia mori pulchrum putant (saith [2746] Hippocrates) vel quia putant inde se majoribus malis liberari, to be freed as they wish.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Coelum pulchrum, sed pulchrior coeli fabricator; if heaven be so fair, the sun so fair, how much fairer shall he be, that made them fair?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Theogine's horse in Heliodorus [4846] curvet, prance, and go so proudly, exultans alacriter et superbiens, &c., but that such as mine author supposeth, he was in love with his master? dixisses ipsum equum pulchrum intelligere pulchram domini fomam?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • As this fair object varies, so doth our love; for as Proclus holds, Omne pulchrum amabile, every fair thing is amiable, and what we love is fair and gracious in our eyes, or at least we do so apprehend and still esteem of it.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And as the bragging soldier vaunted in the comedy, nimia est miseria pulchrum esse hominem nimis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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