Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele, joint author · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 24
ack to what we havebeen told of the dress of the early Venetians, —that it was so invented that in clothing them-selves with it, they might clothe themselves withmodesty and honour; consider what noblenessof expression there is in the dress of any of theportrait figures of the great times, — nay,… … Fig. 3. — Sylvia. BEAUTY OF FORM. 17 We cannot despise it if we would; and in all ourhighest poetry and happiest thought we cling tothe magnificence which in daily life we disregard. The study of. the true beauty of adornment maybe a perennial source of simple pleasure, a con-stant ministration to…
Beauty, Personal · Clothing and dress
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