Citations:beau idéal


 * 1) An emulable eidolon embodying excellence in a particular respect.
 * 2) * 1825: Horace Smith, Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries; Now First Collected, § “Ugly Women”, pp200{1} & 201{2}
 * {1}By constantly straining above humanity, and aspiring to the representation of celestial beauty; by fostering the enthusiasm of their imaginations in the pursuit of the beau idéal, — they acquired a distaste, or at least an indifference, for mortal attractions, and turned up their noses at their fair countrywomen for not being Junos and Minervas. Not one of them equalled the model which had been conjured up in their minds, and not one of them, consequently, would they deign to notice. At the public games, the women were all huddled together, whispering and looking glum, while the men congregated as far from them as possible, discussing the beau idéal.
 * {2}In this emergency, Pygmalion, the most eminent statuary of the place, falling in love with one of his own works, a figure of Diana, which happened to possess the beau idéal in perfection, implored Venus to animate the marble; and she, as is well known to every person conversant with authentic history, immediately granted his request.
 * 1) * 2004: Samantha Matthews, Poetical Remains: Poets’ Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century, p101{1}; QUOTING FROM:
 * 2) * circa 1827: “Ms. Hemans”, A letter to Clara Graves{2}
 * {1}She professes the necessity of giving up her ‘beau idéal’ of Tighe, yet her manner of retailing the information discredits its tellers.
 * {2}I was sorry to find that I must give up my beau idéal of Mrs. Tighe’s Character … much of her domestic sorrow I learned, was caused by her excessive passion for shining in Society, which quite carried her away from all Home-enjoyments, until her health gave way, and she was compelled to relinquish this career of dissipation.
 * 1) * 2004: Samantha Matthews, Poetical Remains: Poets’ Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century, p101{1}; QUOTING FROM:
 * 2) * circa 1827: “Ms. Hemans”, A letter to Clara Graves{2}
 * {1}She professes the necessity of giving up her ‘beau idéal’ of Tighe, yet her manner of retailing the information discredits its tellers.
 * {2}I was sorry to find that I must give up my beau idéal of Mrs. Tighe’s Character … much of her domestic sorrow I learned, was caused by her excessive passion for shining in Society, which quite carried her away from all Home-enjoyments, until her health gave way, and she was compelled to relinquish this career of dissipation.
 * 1) * 2004: Samantha Matthews, Poetical Remains: Poets’ Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century, p101{1}; QUOTING FROM:
 * 2) * circa 1827: “Ms. Hemans”, A letter to Clara Graves{2}
 * {1}She professes the necessity of giving up her ‘beau idéal’ of Tighe, yet her manner of retailing the information discredits its tellers.
 * {2}I was sorry to find that I must give up my beau idéal of Mrs. Tighe’s Character … much of her domestic sorrow I learned, was caused by her excessive passion for shining in Society, which quite carried her away from all Home-enjoyments, until her health gave way, and she was compelled to relinquish this career of dissipation.
 * {2}I was sorry to find that I must give up my beau idéal of Mrs. Tighe’s Character … much of her domestic sorrow I learned, was caused by her excessive passion for shining in Society, which quite carried her away from all Home-enjoyments, until her health gave way, and she was compelled to relinquish this career of dissipation.