The Complete Coiffeur: Or, An Essay on the Art of Adorning Natural, and of Creating Artificial, Beauty ...Stereotyped for the Proprietors, and sold by all the Principal Booksellers, 1817 - Barbering - 206 pages |
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Page 48 - Of faithful love : I go to guard thy haunt, To keep from thy recess each vagrant foot, And each licentious eye." With wild surprise, As if to marble struck, devoid of sense, A stupid moment motionless she stood : So stands the statue that enchants the world ; So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. Recovering, swift she flew to find those robes Which blissful Eden knew not ; and, array'd In careless haste, th...
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Page 50 - His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad: She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore...
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Page 68 - Twill then become my pleasing duty, To contemplate a husband's beauty ; And gazing on his manly face, His feelings and his wishes trace ; To banish thence each mark of care, And light a smile of pleasure there. O let me then, tis all I ask, Commence at once the pleasing task ; O let me, (as becomes my place) Cut those huge whiskers from your face.