10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VISNOMY»
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visnomy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Five Volumes
... shew Thing so divine to vew of earthly eye, The fayre idea of your celestiall
hew And every part remaines immortally : And were it not that, through your
cruelty, With sorrow dimmed and deform'd it were, The goodly ymage of your
visnomy, ...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Memoir
... it were, The goodly ymage of your visnomy,1 Clearer than cristall, would
therein appere. But if your selfe. 1 Visnomy, countenance. 1 Sudden, qu. sullen! 8
Fray, frighten. 9 Dumps, lamentations. 264 AMORETTI.
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Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : ...
VISNOMY— VITREUX. VITRIXA OCULARIS — VOLITIONAL. VOLITIONAL—
VUE. 1030 VULCANITE, DENTAL— WALLACHIA,. 102 7 VISNOMY,
Physiognomv. VISORIUM ORGANUM, (from videre, visum, □to see/) Eve.
VISORIUS, Visual.
II* Whoso wil seeke, by right deserts, t' attaine Unto the type of true nobility, And
not by painted shewes, and titles vaine, Derived farre from famous auncestrie,
Behold them both in their right visnomy 1 Here truly pourtray'd as they ought to be
, ...
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Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare
The word 'has' surely bears various meanings, from 'captures' or 'explains' to '
exemplifies' or 'contains', while the odd 'visnomy' probably means 'form'.9 When
we look back at the passage itself, we can presume that Keats is admiring an ...
Visnomy, ) are old corruptions of Visiognomy, \ physiognomy (Greek
physiogndmonia, the knowledge of a man's nature (physis) by means of his face
or expression), from a supposed connexion with visage, Fr. vis, the face or
countenance, Lat.
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
VISNOMY, t. A contraction and corruption of physiognomy, (quasi physnomy)
improperly used for countenance. When ns the paine of death she tasted had,
And but half scene his ugly viinomie. Spent. F. Q. V. iv. 11. So also in Muiopotmos
, 1.
Wherefore it was very justly saidofPamfilo, seeking to show thefoulness of
Messer Forese's visnomy, that it would have showed notablyugly on oneof the
Cadgers.” The Seventh Story Madam Filippa, Being Found by Her Husband.
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
visnomy was ever seen; for she had a nose flattened sore, a mouth all awry, thick
lips and great ill-set teeth; moreover, she inclined to squint, nor was ever without
sore eyes, and had a green and yellow complexion, which gave her the air of ...
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The Insatiate Countess
John Marston, William Barksted Giorgio Melchiori. Sago. I have not spoiled his
face, you may know his visnomy. Captain. 'Tis Count Guido, go, convey him
hence. Thy life, proud Spaniard, answers this offence. A strong guard for the
prisoner, ...
John Marston, Giorgio Melchiori, William Barksted, 1984
