American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 240
skin of a beautiful woman.Delicacy and grace are component parts of beauty, and Burke on the whole is correct, though hedoes not lay sufficient stress upon health when he says: The beauty of women is considerablyowing to their weakness, or delicacy, and is even enhanced by their timidity, a quality… … BETTYS PLAYTHINGS. DRAWN BY F. W FREER, AMERICAN ART 197 ill state of health which produces such weakness, alters the other conditions of beauty: the partsin such a case collapse; the bright color,the lumenpurpiireumjuventce,\?, gone; and the fine variationis lost in wrinkles, sudden breaks, and…
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