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eyes, eyebrows, hair, and complexion, are 

 more striking and showy than delicate : 

 imagine then the same features, with the 

 eyebrows less marked, and both those, and 

 the hair of the head, of a softer texture ; 

 the general glow of complexion changed to 

 a more delicate gradation of white and red; 

 the skin more smooth and even, and the 

 eyes of a milder colour and expression : 

 you would by this change take off from 

 the striking, the showy effect ; but such a 

 face would have, in a greater degree, that 

 finished delicacy, which even those who 

 might prefer the showy style, would allow 

 to be more in unison Avith the idea of beauty ; 

 and the other would appear comparatively 

 coarse and unfinished. If we go on still 

 further, and suppose hardly any mark of 

 eyebrow; the hair, from the lightness of 

 its colour, and from the silky softness of its 

 quality, giving scarce any idea of rough- 

 ness ; the complexion of a pure, and almost 

 transparent whiteness, with hardly a tinge 

 of red ; the eyes of the mildest blue, and 

 the expression equally mild,— you would 



