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fid ; both from their outward effect in regard 

 to colour, and from the connexion between 

 that appearance, and the inward feelings of 

 the mind: but no Ethiopian poet could say 

 of his mistress, 



Her pure and eloquent blood 



Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, 

 That you might almost say her body thought. 



The well-known answer of a Grecian 

 lady? is not a less high compliment to the 

 same sort of appearance in the male sex : 

 when asked what was the most beautiful 

 colour in nature, she replied, the blush of 

 an ingenuous youth. From that charming 

 suffusion in the human face, which can 

 only take place where the skin is transpa- 

 rent, we borrow an epithet very commonly 

 given to the most beautiful of flowers : an 

 Ethiopian lady may admire the rose's blush- 

 ing hue (and it is said that the black na- 

 tions have a sort of passion for the rose), 

 but no such pleasing association can arise 

 in her mind. 



In discussing this subject, I think I may 

 fairly be allowed to reason from the analogy 



