Woman, in Her Social and Domestic CharacterLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839 - 224 стор. |
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... elegance taste is the true source . As it teaches symmetry , so does it impart grace . Taste is the rule of elegance . There may be artificial forms ; and these may or may not be agreeable to the proportions of taste : but taste gives ...
... elegance taste is the true source . As it teaches symmetry , so does it impart grace . Taste is the rule of elegance . There may be artificial forms ; and these may or may not be agreeable to the proportions of taste : but taste gives ...
Сторінка 18
... elegance . Modes of fashion are entirely conventional ; and are often as un- graceful as they are capricious . The lady , for instance , who anoints her head with tallow is irresistible in Ethiopia ; and though we cannot sympathise with ...
... elegance . Modes of fashion are entirely conventional ; and are often as un- graceful as they are capricious . The lady , for instance , who anoints her head with tallow is irresistible in Ethiopia ; and though we cannot sympathise with ...
Сторінка 19
... easy or a common attainment . On the contrary , we often see women who have lived much in society deficient in this mark of elegance ; and we can quite understand the remark of a really high - bred woman on c 2 FEMALE INFLUENCE . 19.
... easy or a common attainment . On the contrary , we often see women who have lived much in society deficient in this mark of elegance ; and we can quite understand the remark of a really high - bred woman on c 2 FEMALE INFLUENCE . 19.
Сторінка 20
... Elegance is nature , but not rude nature ; it is unaffected , but not unpolished : it copies natural grace , and corrects natural defects . Yet it is no servile imitator , for it studies suitability as well as simplicity . It does not ...
... Elegance is nature , but not rude nature ; it is unaffected , but not unpolished : it copies natural grace , and corrects natural defects . Yet it is no servile imitator , for it studies suitability as well as simplicity . It does not ...
Сторінка 21
... elegance and amiability : — we must allow , indeed , the not unfrequent ex- istence of the latter without the former ; but we can scarcely conceive a really elegant woman altogether unamiable . Elegance is poetry in action . Imagination ...
... elegance and amiability : — we must allow , indeed , the not unfrequent ex- istence of the latter without the former ; but we can scarcely conceive a really elegant woman altogether unamiable . Elegance is poetry in action . Imagination ...
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