The Ladies' Toilette; or, Encyclopedia of Beauty. Chap. I.—Of Beauty [3/22]
Anon
Genre: | Serial, Miscellaneous |
Subjects: | Light, Gender |
Reflects that, when a man ceases to love a woman, 'The prism of the imagination is broken, and the ray of beauty, which once shone with such lovely colours, being no longer refracted by this magic crystal, now presents to the disenchanted eye nothing but a lurid and monotonous light' (298). Attempts to define the nature of beauty through the medium of colour, form, and proportion. | |
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