Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind (1797)
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801 · London, Sold by H.D. Symonds · leaf 103
y the form ofthe face, and even by the hair. The delign of the forehead is toovague and deilitute of charafter. Serenity of mind is the only in-ference l<d be drawn from it with any degree of certainty. PORTRAIT AND SILH0UETTE.«-5^^/i^^ P/^^« How much more expreffive is the filhouette than the… … LAVATEE.s P H Y S I 0 G H 0 Ii^ Y. ^iii in preference attach himfelf to thefilhouette, becaufe it pre-fents him with greater dignity in the under part of the profile, andInore poetical fentiment in the nofe. Befides, the form of the faceis infinitely more vulgar in the portrait. It wants the unity…
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