And then, a throng of mournful thoughts would press On this, my wild-ideal loneliness.

Against it are held up as ideals representatives of the middle class in the guise of the gentleman brigand.

To be convinced that, at some period or another of their history, the Egyptians had conceived a beau-ideal superior to the beautiful which nature habitually produced in their country, we have only to examine the young Memnon, at the British Museum, and the heads of many of the sphinxes which remain.