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But can any of us remember to have seen more than four or five specimens of first-rate ideal beauty? Whosoever had seen Lady Montfort would have ranked her amongst such four or five in his recollection. There was in her face that lustrous dazzle to which the Latin poet, perhaps, refers when he speaks of the "Nitor Splendentis Pario marmore purius . . . Et voltus, niminm lubricus adspici,"
Vane Ligur, frustraque animis elate superbis, Nequicquam patrias tentasti lubricus artes.
The dew of morning lay upon nature like a brilliant veil, realizing the beautiful image of Horace, as applied to woman: Vultus nimium lubricus aspici.
They did not, as Rubens did, heighten the flesh with pure white; they reserved the power of that for another purpose, preserving throughout a lower tone, so that the eye shall not fasten upon any one particular tint, the whole being of the character of the "nimium lubricus aspici."
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