She was beauty's self.
Thomson.
Self is united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives
to express emphasis or distinction. Thus, for emphasis; I myself will
write; I will examine for myself; thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see
for thyself; you yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself; he
himself shall write; he shall examine for himself; she herself shall
write; she shall examine for herself; the child itself shall be
carried; it shall be present itself. It is also used reflexively; as, I
abhor myself; thou enrichest thyself; he loves himself; she admires
herself; it pleases itself; we walue ourselves; ye hurry yourselves;
they see themselves. Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the
nominative case, as well as in the objective. "Jesus himself baptized
not, but his disciples." John iv. 2.
self is used in the formation of innumerable compounds, usually of
obvious signification, in most of which it denotes either the agent or
the object of the action expressed by the word with which it is joined,
or the person in behalf of whom it is performed, or the person or thing
to, for, or towards whom or which a quality, attribute, or feeling
expressed by the following word belongs, is directed, or is exerted, or
from which it proceeds; or it denotes the subject of, or object
affected by, such action, quality, attribute, feeling, or the like; as,
self-abandoning, self-abnegation, self-abhorring, self-absorbed,
self-accusing, self-adjusting, self-balanced, self-boasting,
self-canceled, self-combating, self-commendation, self-condemned,
self-conflict, self-conquest, self-constituted, self-consumed,
self-contempt, self-controlled, self-deceiving, self-denying,
self-destroyed, self-disclosure, self-display, self-dominion,
self-doomed, self-elected, self-evolved, self-exalting, self-excusing,
self-exile, self-fed, self- fulfillment, self-governed, self-harming,
self- helpless, self-humiliation, self-idolized, self- inflicted,
self-improvement, self-instruction, self-invited, self-judging,
self-justification, self-loathing, self-loving, self-maintenance,
self-mastered, self-nourishment, self-perfect, self-perpetuation,
self-pleasing, self-praising, self-preserving, self-questioned,
self-relying, self-restraining, self-revelation, self-ruined,
self-satisfaction, self-support, self-sustained, self-sustaining,
self-tormenting, self-troubling, self-trust, self-tuition,
self-upbraiding, self-valuing, self-worshiping, and many others.
Self`-a*based" (?), a. Humbled by consciousness of inferiority,
unworthiness, guilt, or shame.
Self`-a*base"ment (?), n. 1. Degradation of one's self by one's own
act.
2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of
inferiority, guilt, or shame.
Self`-a*bas"ing, a. Lowering or humbling one's self.
Self`-ab*hor"rence (?), n. Abhorrence of one's self.
Self`-ab`ne*ga"tion (?), n. Self- denial; self-renunciation;
self-sacrifice.
Self`-abuse" (?), n. 1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or
faculties.