Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 22
back to what we havebeen told of the dress of the earh 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. 1/ 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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