Introduction. 
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man j but it would be difficult for him either 
to fee, conceive, or take off moving figures in 
a l ively fcene, where love and harmony combined 
to dire6t the powers of retracing youthful looks, 
grace and motions keeping pace with the pulfe of 
fenfibility.* Thefe varying beauties are belt re- 
ferved for woman’s gentle touch and refined feelings. 
Indeed, we might fupport our affertions, by men- 
tioning many ftriking inftances of fuperior excel- 
lence in the faireft part of the creation; but we (hall 
only dwell, at prefent, on thofe heroic a£tions 
by which French women have immortalized their 
names during the late memorable revolution. 
Buoyed up above the fear of death by fenti- 
mental courage, they carried to the higheft pitch 
■* We have given an Imperfeft Imitation of Dr. Sue’s following 
compliment to the fair fex. /Ivouons, (fays he), que les mouvements 
dou'.Xf delicats, legers^ Cff mille details que I’homme ne diftingue pas^ 
ou qu*il craint d’ approfondir, font referves au fentiment aujfi coura- 
geujc qu’ admirable, ^ d la touche fine ^ ingenieufe des femmes. On 
this occafion a fair lady can heft determine, whether we have raifed 
the fame fenfations in her bread, by an allufion to fome of thofe 
thoufand graces which the French phyfician left to our imagination ; 
but in order to convey his idea beyond the literal meaning, it ftruck 
us, that we ought to imagine fuch a lively fcene as is reprefented in 
the Dancing Hours, of which a copy is in our poffeffion ; and as 
the original pidlure is painted on a ceiling in the Rofpigliofo Palace, 
we fuppofe that it has not yet followed the vidlor’s triumphal car, as 
other precious monuments have done, and will ever do, fo long as 
the fine arts are efteemed and cultivated. 
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