The British Essayists
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ISBN13: 9780217576192
Paperback|9780217576192
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: We have a kind of sketch of dress, if I may so call it, among us, which as the invention was foreign, is called a dishabille: every thing is thrown on with a loose and careless air; yet a genius discovers itself even through this negligence of dress, just as you may see the masterly hand of a painter in three or four swift strokes of the pencil. The most fruitful in genuises is the French nation; we owe most of our janty fashions now in vogue, to some adept beau among them. Their ladies exert the whole scope of their fancies upon every new petticoat; every head-dress undergoes a change; and not a lady of genius will appear in the same shape two days together; so that we may impute the scarcity of geniuses in our climate to the stagnation of fashions. The ladies among U9 have a superior genius to the men; which have fer some years past shot out in several exorbitant inventions for the greater consumption of our manufacture. While the men feave contented themselves with the retrenchment of the hat, or the various scallop of the pocket, the' ladies have sunk the head-dress, inclosed themselves in the circumference of the hoop-pettico; furbelows and flounces have been disposed of at will, .the stays have been lowered behind, for the better displaying the beauties of the neck; not to mention the various rolling of the sleeve, and those other nice circumstances of dress upon which every lady employs her fancy at pleasure. The sciences of poetry and dress have so near an alliance to each other, that the rules of the one, with very little variation, may serve for the other. As in a poem all the several parts of it must have a harmony with the whole; so to keep to thepropriety of dress, the coat, waistcoat, and breeches must be of the same piece. As Aristotle obliges ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217576192 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217576192 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 204 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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