[123]. Phocic. cap. xxv.-xxxi.
[124]. See Appendix, note 42.
[125]. Betrachtungen über die Malerei, p. 185.
[126]. Written in 1763.
[127]. “She was a woman right beautiful, with fine eyebrows, of clearest complexion, beautiful cheeks; comely, with large, full eyes, with snow-white skin, quick-glancing, graceful; a grove filled with graces, fair-armed, voluptuous, breathing beauty undisguised. The complexion fair, the cheek rosy, the countenance pleasing, the eye blooming; a beauty unartificial, untinted, of its natural color, adding brightness to the brightest cherry, as if one should dye ivory with resplendent purple. Her neck long, of dazzling whiteness; whence she was called the swan-born, beautiful Helen.”
[128]. See Appendix, note 43.
[129]. Orlando Furioso, canto vii. st. 11–15.
Her shape is of such perfect symmetry,
As best to feign the industrious painter knows;
With long and knotted tresses; to the eye