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230 LADY HESTER STANHOPE ,
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— — Much Has Been Said And Written Latel...
have burdens performed and entertainin lier duty to his him friends , in halving . She his represents cares , sharing herself his as g
received , with gratitude and empressement _, by a man who had resigned the happiness of earthly affection , that he task might
consecrate At twenty himself years more remarkable of entirety age , if to for we the a are grandeur to lexion credit of his her so brilliant own . descri that ptionHester was
a pearl , necklace could hardly be distinguished comp from the white , - ness of her skin . Her figure was not far from six feet , and beautiful in its proportions ; her face , oval ; her head so well that Brummell
poised on the shoulders , and the cheek so rounded , once remarked with his accustomed impertinence , " For Heaven ' s sakeremove those ear-rings , and let ' s see what ' s underneath . "
the For features , the rest , so the far eyes from were regular blue that , approaching she was wont to grey to say ; and of and
herselfthat it was " homogeneous ugliness , " nothing more . in Her the greatest striking , charm contrasts s consisted of an organization in her ever which -varying was expression ever tending , and to
extremes . Faces like this , without being perfectly regular , are a which perpetual perpetuall surprise draw to the new beholders contours ; from in the the lines strange of the expressions mouth and
chin . In common y with those excitable natures , which seem as though they were forced to exhale an excess said to of be power icall in order beau to
meridianal tiful go on in in her their sk j _>& natural r these O _3 ysms storm way of s , of enthusiasm Hester was ( which or she passion had never ; trag whilst learned , y like to a - rage
control ) would y , clear the atmosphere and leave a benigner influence behindUnlike the frivolous beauties of her timeshe had too
. , correct a taste to spoil her appearance by that finikin care in her toilet which may generally be attributed to an excess ofpersonal selfdressedcondemn
love . The belles of that day were generally over-, - nature ing themselves , or in imitating to perpetual some labor aristocratic in thwartin type g . the It purposes is and easy to of
Imag ling ine wit , how must favorabl have contrasted y Hester , with with their her these dresses easy beauties manners but of never ebony spark their and - ivory , who were always changing ,
features . For the resther reminiscences ( like those of Mrs . Delany , not Fanny furnish Burney us with , Lad the y Charlotte , most leasing Bury , and icture Nathaniel of the epoch Wraxall in which ) do
she lived . Even on those women p who p kept themselves free from the darker vices of the timessociety inflicted this injurythat it was
not association only the with hotbed others for their was , almost own self certain -conceit to , but deprive the , unlimited them of
by genuine simp self licit -consciousness . y , The and women to ; teach their of those n them atur , day al to food s value seenx was the to flattery have showy , been they if above the h mistook aunted world the
w sympathy ere made for of comp look liment in-lasses , and . moved The favorites everywhere of those as days were gg *
230 Lady Hester Stanhope ,
230 LADY HESTER STANHOPE ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/14/
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