that of decent(正派的,端正的,得体的) and gracious(高尚的,亲切的) motion(动作,运动), more than that of favor.
That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty, that has not some strangeness in the proportion比例,均衡). A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler(不务正业的人); whereof(关于什么) the one, would make a personage(要人,个人) by geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody, but the painter that made them.
Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it
Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute(放荡的,风流的) youth, and an age a little out of countenance(面容,脸色,支持); but yet certainly again, if it light well, it makes virtue shine, and vices(恶习,缺点) blush(脸红,羞愧).
asthe advance ofthe age
in which one shivering consciousness(意识,知觉) looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable(深不可测的,难解的) lifeless abyss(深渊). I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic(神秘的) miniature(缩影), the prefiguring(预示) vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what-at last-I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the h