Shakspeare's Mental Photographs · William Shakespeare
WHAT STYLE OF BEAUTY DO YOU ADMIRE?
1. Her hair is auburn. _Two Gentlemen of Verona._ Act iv. Scene 4. 2. A sweet-faced man. _Midsummer Night’s Dream._ Act i. Scene 2. 3. She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman. _Merry Wives of Windsor._ Act i. Scene 1. 4. Her sunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. _Merchant of Venice._ Act i. Scene 1. 5. Her hair, what color? Brown, Madam: and her forehead is as low As she would wish it. _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act iii. Scene 3. 6. As plays the sun upon the glassy streams, Twinkling another counterfeited beam, So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes. _Henry VI._ Part I. Act v. Scene 3. 7. A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not. _As You Like It._ Act iii. Scene 2. 8. Her eyes are gray as glass. _Two Gentlemen of Verona._ Act iv. Scene 4. 9. There is never a fair woman has a true face. _Antony and Cleopatra._ Act ii. Scene 6. 10. Item, two lips indifferent red; item, two gray eyes with lids to them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. _Twelfth Night._ Act i. Scene 5. 11. She is fair, and fairer than that word,— Of wondrous virtues. _Merchant of Venice._ Act i. Scene 1.
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