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Roxana (1724) [ Practices ]
… my dress, was the chat of the town for that week, and so the name Roxana was the toast at and about the Court; no other health was to be named with it. Now things began to work as I would have them, and I began to be very popular as much as … my dress, was the chat of the town for that week, and so the name Roxana was the toast at and about the Court; no other health was to be named with it." … Fiction … Masquerade … Beauty … Court … Dance … Gentleman … Taken from Daniel Defoe, …
Fiction | Masquerade | Beauty | Court | Dance | Gentleman
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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… and dignity of all the other parts, and exhibits their affections as in a Glass. For from it are not only taken signs of health, diseases, and imminent death; but also most clear tokens of the very disposition, manners and affections of the …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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