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Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… focus of these commentaries, but the various attempts to explain beauty and its effect evidenced a widespread concern with its social significance, and particularly, its influence and role in the conceptualisation of femininity, morality, … the features of a beautiful physical appearance was somewhat simpler than explaining the moral values associated with a person’s inner beauty. The preferred type of beauty in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain was often depicted with long curling hair of brown or blonde colour, dark eyes, arched black eyebrows, and a racially fuelled preference for …
Aesthetics | Beauty | Conduct | Femininity | Manners | Women
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The Auction (1778) [ People ]
… At morning's dawn dispell'd her tort'ring fears, And for a few short hours dried up her tears. Now gaudy Fancy, with her painted Train Of antic Visions, sported o'er her brain, And scatter'd airy pleasures as she pass'd; Alas! those … door her golden slumbers broke. Starting, in wild disorder up she rose: The quick but sad remembrance of her woes, With recollected torture, eager prest Its thorny sorrows on her tender breast. In silent haste the toilette is prepar'd; But, ah! Vainetta's eyes no longer dar'd, With watchful look and lengthen'd zeal, to trace The doubtful beauty of her bloated face, Now hideous grown with anxious, …
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