lineaments

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In which conceiuing capacitie, maruellous performance, incredible charge and high commendation of the most excellent Artificer, woorthily allowed in euerie partition and elegant conuention of exquisite Lineaments.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert

We have all of us different Souls, and our Souls have Affections as different from one another, as our outward Faces are in their Lineaments.

From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.

Many a time and oft have I gaz’d with Pleasure on your Features, and trac’d in them the exact Lineaments of your glorious Ancestor Sir John Brand, vulgarly call’d Sir John Pudding.

From A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) by Macey, Samuel L.

Her Lineaments so fine that were She from the Fayrie tooke, Her Beauties and Complection cleere By nature from the Brooke.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

Yet sometimes, when the Sun shone very clear, there appear'd faint Lineaments of a sixth and seventh.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir