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... elegance . Elegance contributes much to female fascination ; and women should seek to be elegant not only in manner , but in mind . Manner is , indeed , generally symptomatic ; but as it may be artificial , it is no sure criterion of ...
... elegance . Elegance contributes much to female fascination ; and women should seek to be elegant not only in manner , but in mind . Manner is , indeed , generally symptomatic ; but as it may be artificial , it is no sure criterion of ...
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... elegance . Modes of fashion are entirely conventional , and are often as ungraceful as they are capricious . The lady , for instance , who anoints her head with tallow is irresistible in Ethiopia ; and though we cannot sympathize with ...
... elegance . Modes of fashion are entirely conventional , and are often as ungraceful as they are capricious . The lady , for instance , who anoints her head with tallow is irresistible in Ethiopia ; and though we cannot sympathize with ...
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... Elegance is nature , but not rude nature ; it is un- affected , but not unpolished : it copies natural grace , and corrects natural defects . Yet it is no servile imitator , for it studies suitability as well as simplicity . It does not ...
... Elegance is nature , but not rude nature ; it is un- affected , but not unpolished : it copies natural grace , and corrects natural defects . Yet it is no servile imitator , for it studies suitability as well as simplicity . It does not ...
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... Elegance is poetry in action . Imagination may paint the heroine deficient in beauty , but never in elegance . It is this which diffuses , as it were , a halo round woman , which invests her with a ro- mantic charm , and which more ...
... Elegance is poetry in action . Imagination may paint the heroine deficient in beauty , but never in elegance . It is this which diffuses , as it were , a halo round woman , which invests her with a ro- mantic charm , and which more ...
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... elegance ; and though it be but an ornament , it is one so agreeable that it is well worth endeavoring to possess . To be careless of elegance , indeed , proves little anxiety to please , or little acquaintance with the susceptibilities ...
... elegance ; and though it be but an ornament , it is one so agreeable that it is well worth endeavoring to possess . To be careless of elegance , indeed , proves little anxiety to please , or little acquaintance with the susceptibilities ...
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