Meaning of beau-ideal | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“To this same level of the beau-ideal the imagination in absence descends as well as rises—and it is by this theory alone I can account for having done injustice to Mrs. Norton's beauty in my remembrance of her.”

“It seems but proper, every way, therefore, for us to know⟳, that this king of poets and philosophers was also among the best of men ; that, in his character, modesty and humility kept pace with greatness ; and that he was as much better than the beau-ideals of our intellectual popinjays and dandiprats, as those beau-ideals were prouder than he.”

“The latter says—“I felt the future ; I foretold that they would prove⟳ themselves the finest things on earth, that they would overturn the false beau-ideal, where nature was nothing, and establish⟳ the true beau-ideal of which nature alone is the basis."”

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