and took to using padding in their dress, so that in 1760 you might see women, old and young, all looking as though they were with child... And hardly ten years or thereabouts had passed before the first belief regained its mastery over minds; and you see our women now employing, to narrow their waists, means their grandmothers at the beginning of the century never knew."
Among the beauties of the age in France was the Marquise de Pompadour. She was born in 1721, and the marks of beauty showed upon her in her childhood, which led her mother to say: "That is something fit for His Majesty..." One of the writers of the age described her thus:
"There was in her more charm than there was beauty. Most striking in her were her regular, rounded features, her captivating complexion, her superb arms and hands, and her eyes that spoke of intelligence. When illness befell the Marquise in 1764, the court neglected all the other affairs of state and gave its whole attention to the ailing Marquise."
Another writer relates that the Marquise "began to lose her beauty by way of her mouth. From her childhood she had been accustomed to biting her lips in order to hide her agitation, and by the time she was thirty her mouth had lost its beauty. She was obliged to make it up afresh after every meal and after every kiss."
The same writer says:
"In the late eighteenth century a revolution took place in the dress of Frenchwomen: bosoms, which had formerly been covered with a thick covering, were permitted to appear to the eye, to bare themselves and look out from behind the gown — that loose, open gown beneath which a woman wore nothing but a thin petticoat."
As for England, Lady Hamilton occupies the throne of beauty in the period extending from the late eighteenth century into the first part of the century that follows.
There is no doubt that among all the
women of history there has been no woman to rival this Emma Hamilton in her union of captivating bodily beauty and a sweet, serene disposition. Fortunately it was granted this woman to play a romantic role such as few have been granted.
Her husband, Sir William Hamilton, having observed that "when she is unadorned, she is at her most splendidly adorned," said to her:
"Take my word for what I tell you: the more simply you dress, the more your beauty shows. And your beauty, in its entirety, is the most perfect beauty my eyes have ever fallen upon."
And Horace Walpole said: "Sir William has married his gallery of statues..."
As for Romney, who immortalized her in his collection of paintings of her, he was infatuated with her to a far degree. He wrote of her: "She is a young woman of a playful character without affectation; her grace
is boundless, and her figure perfectly proportioned. Very beautiful, overflowing with health and life."
And the foremost German poet, Goethe, wrote: "She is surpassingly beautiful, harmonious of feature. She wears a Greek gown that becomes her and makes her perfect. She lets down her tresses, or puts on her cloak, or changes her adornment or her attitudes, and makes you feel that you are in a dream. There is in her, with a strange clarity, perfection, and variety, everything that so many artists have striven to fix and to display — and fallen short..."
This is a little of the much that has been written about Emma Hamilton, who was, in truth, the central jewel in the necklace of English beauty. One is therefore seized with bewilderment on recalling that in her later days, after the death of Nelson, she grew fat and careless of her appearance, and became a subject of mockery for the caricaturists.
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