Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World. / To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress.

by Anonymous

And Byron, in yet higher strain:—

“There, too, the goddess loves in stone, and fills

The air around with beauty;

within the pale

We stand, and in that form and face behold

What Mind can make, when Nature’s self would fail;

And to the fond idolaters of old

Envy the innate flash which such a soul could mould.

We gaze and turn away, and know not where,

Dazzled and drunk with beauty, till the heart