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thu Picturesque" has these hue structures
on the Hair Of Women: the hair, by rs
comparative roughness, and its parsla
conceslmen,s accompanies and relieves The
eaf;neas, clearnsss and smoor heness ct the
face of beautiful woman. Where the hair
has no natural roughness, i. is often artif,
cis!y curled and ~crisped. Grisbed hair
alhangh a picturesque object yet siAen.
hair is also favorte one.-Anacrsoa IN
one of his odes tell the painter
P int her hair Of lovely brown,
Szfltr thar tbe ogn is deqOe;
Then ii paint g tar be found,
Sketch h. odours breathing rourds
Mkt one b-a,i US ch;ek difr lay;
Where her glgO risgkh play;
o. her lv'r, brow descending,
Light and lhade 70 iweedy blending.
9'hr ancients never give description Of
beauty without dwelling long on the magic
OF II zOomans hair. A volume on this
subj CT might perhaps be collected by one
familiar with their compositions. Apulelus
enthusiastically says, that If Venus her.
self were bald, altho' cifcIed by the Craces
and the Loves, she would no. please, no.,
even her swarrhy Vulcan" Pe,rorius, in
bis portrait of Gree, describes her uesses
naturally curling, aud falling neghgen,ly
over her shoulders, e''tfrely Covering them
Apulelus more exact, aud with s,it! more
dehcacy-hrr trailing locks thick and long,
and lnsenslbly curling, were dispersed
about her divine neck, softly undui eiug
with carelessnsss Again, g curling into
waves again. " her thick lresses, softly
falling from her head, were arranged about
her neck, aud inseosibly resting on the
borders Of her vest, sblvr her bosom !;
then wound their ex.remitss into large
curls, while some were drawn UP, ADD
hung 10 fne kuos on the crown OF her
head. Ovid notices those who plated
their braided hair ike spiral shells. Pc
tronius, TO give ue ali idea OF a perfect
beauyy, says, that her: f9yehsaa was small
and Showed the roots q her TAR raised
upwards. And Lucian makes That's say
oil rival courtezan =" How Gao that stupid
soldier, unless he is blind. praise her par
son? Does he not see that she has vsry
1Gssu hairs, which with great ART she draws
upon her large f0rehsods
y Zuleikha is the name Of Potiphar's
wife. whose amours with Joseph, torn
one of the most celebrated poems in the
Persian language. There is a copy Of this
work 10 the Bodeian library at Oxford,
which, am told, is one Of the finest
10 Europ-. A Persian poet thus emerge
,caly describes his heroine OF disappoiet.
ed passion.
I" Zuleikha, one night, impatient and
distracted, the twin.sister of Affection,
aud to whom Sorrow was familiar friend,
Drank to the very dregs Of the cup
of wretchedness, and from the burning an.
guish Of passion, passed the night without
repose."
Sir William Jones, 10 his literal version
Of his celebrated Ode of Hafez, in his Per-
sian grammar, has, 81 can easily conceive
how the enchanting beauties of 9ssebA at.
fected Zuleikha so deeply. that her love
tore the veil of her chastity" What an
elegant metaphor he ha, pieasiugIy versis
fed the passage.
Beauty has fuch rehtefs power,
That even the chalte Egyptian dame
Sigh'd for the blooming Hebrew boy;
For her how fatal was the hour
When 10 the hanks of Nillus came
A youth 70 loyelyand 10 coy!