"beau-ideal" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1840, The American Miscellany - Volumes 1-2, page 77:",
          "text": "To this same level of the beau-ideal the imagination in absence descends as well as rises—and it is by this theory alone I can account for having done injustice to Mrs. Norton's beauty in my remembrance of her.",
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          "ref": "1848, Henry Norman Hudson, Lectures on Shakespeare - Volume 1, page 41:",
          "text": "It seems but proper, every way, therefore, for us to know, that this king of poets and philosophers was also among the best of men ; that, in his character, modesty and humility kept pace with greatness ; and that he was as much better than the beau-ideals of our intellectual popinjays and dandiprats, as those beau-ideals were prouder than he.",
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          "ref": "2011, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall, →ISBN, page 14:",
          "text": "The latter says—“I felt the future ; I foretold that they would prove themselves the finest things on earth, that they would overturn the false beau-ideal, where nature was nothing, and establish the true beau-ideal of which nature alone is the basis.\"",
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          "text": "The latter says—“I felt the future ; I foretold that they would prove themselves the finest things on earth, that they would overturn the false beau-ideal, where nature was nothing, and establish the true beau-ideal of which nature alone is the basis.\"",
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