 | Plutarch - 1795 - 472 pages
...not fucceed as to his complexion. He overcharged the colouring, and made his fkin too brown; whereas he was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and' upon his breaft. We read in the memoirs of Ariftoxehus, that a moft agreeable fcent proceeded from his (kin,... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1801 - 426 pages
...fucceed as to his complexion. He over-charged the colouring, and made his fkin too brown : whereas he was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and upon his breaft. We read in the memoirs of Ariftoxenus, that a moft agreeable fcent proceeded from his {kin,... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...not succeed as to his complexion. He overcharged the colouring, and made his skin too brown; whereas he was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and upon...whole body were so fragrant, that they perfumed his under garments. The cause of this might possibly be his hot temperament: for, as Theophrastus conjectures,it... | |
 | Plutarch - Biography - 1813 - 514 pages
...overcharged the colouring and made his skin too brown ; whereas he was fair, with a tinge of red ia his face and upon his breast. We read in the Memoirs...scent proceeded from his skin, and that his breath and his whole body were so fragrant as to perfume his under-garments. The cause of this might, possibly,... | |
 | Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough - Biography - 1905
...not succeed as to his complexion. He overcharged the colouring, and made his skin too brown; whereas he was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and upon...so fragrant, that they perfumed his under-garments. The cause of this might possibly be his hot temperament. For, as Theophrastus conjectures, it is the... | |
 | Plutarch - 1834 - 494 pages
...not succeed' as to his complexion. He overcharged the colouring, and made his skin too brown; whereas he was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and upon...so fragrant, that they perfumed his under-garments. the cause of this, might possibly be his hot temperament. For, as Theophrastus conjectures, it is the... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1841 - 490 pages
...not succeed as to his complexion. He overcharged the colouring, and made his skin too brown; whereas he was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and upon...so fragrant, that they perfumed his under-garments. The cause of this might possibly be his hot temperament. For, as Theophrastus conjectures, it is the... | |
 | Plutarch - 1865 - 366 pages
...not succeed as to his complexion. He overcharged the colouring, and made his skin too brown ; whereas he was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and upon his breast His continence shewed itself at an early 'period; for, though he was vigorous, or rather violent, in... | |
 | Plutarch - 1865 - 366 pages
...not succeed as to his complexion. He overcharged the colouring, and made his skin too brown; whereas he was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and upon his breast. His continence shewed itself at an early 'period; for, though he was vigorous, or rather violent, in... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 206 pages
...not succeed as to his complexion. He overcharged the coloring, and made his skin too brown; whereas he was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and upon his breast." SI 13. Hercules. Millin, Mythologische Gatterie, No. 454 (2d ed., Berlin 1836), thus describes the... | |
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He was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and upon his breast. We read in the memoirs of Aristoxenus, that a most agreeable scent proceeded from his skin, and that his breath and whole body were so fragrant that they perfumed his undergarments. 
