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" Fair hair was the most esteemed, and both men and women used to stain it with a flaxen dye. Various essences were used to perfume and give it lustre, and, sometimes, it was powdered with gold dust to render it still more resplendent. This latter mode... "
Sketches of the Domestic Manners and Institutions of the Romans - 265. oldal
1821 - 347 oldal
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Sketches of the Domestic Manners and Institutions of the Romans

Romans - 1821 - 366 oldal
...Author." Plin. Hist. Nat. 1. xxxvi. c. 26. See also, Gaylust Recueil d'Antiquitet — and Bcckinann'i Hist, of Inventions, art. Mirrors. .indeed, that,...to it amongst all the means which they reproach the N women with having adopted to heighten their charms; neither do the old romances, which yet give such...

Sketches of the Domestic Manners, and Institutions, of the Romans

1823 - 298 oldal
...of their manners declined, and was eventually only used for mere ornament, or convenience. Fair hoir was the most esteemed, and both men and women used...the powder used by the moderns was unknown to the anciints: their authors do not mention it; and the reverend fathers of the Church make no allusion...

Heraldic Anomalies: Or Rank Confusion in Our Orders of Precedence ..., 2. kötet

Edward Nares - 1823 - 386 oldal
...Rome, and from the adoption of which the hair of the Emperor Commodus is said to have become so bright, that when the sun shone upon it, his head appeared as if on fire. The year 1629 is reckoned the epocha of long perukes, at which time it is said they began to appear...

Heraldic Anomalies, 2. kötet

Edward Nares - 1824 - 424 oldal
...Rome, and from the adoption of which the hair of the Emperor Commodus is said to have become so brightj that when the sun shone upon it, his head appeared as if on fire. . vc :•:..> ..-. -,i The year 1629 is reckoned the epocha- of long perukes, at which time it is said...

Saturday Night: Comprising a Review of New Publications, Biography ..., 1. kötet

1824 - 486 oldal
...adoption of which the hair of the spirit of a wife. Emperor Commodns is said to have become so bright, that when the sun shone upon it, his head appeared as if en fire. ANTIQUARIAN REMINISCENCES OF LONDON. London, in the Saxon times, was chiefly situated from...

Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting ...

1825 - 386 oldal
...Rome, and from the adoption of which the hair of the Emperor Commodus is said to have become so bright, that when the sun shone upon it his head appeared as if on fire." • The first writer, I believe, who mentions the use of white powder for the hair, is L'Etoile, in...

The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, 19. kötet

Reuben Percy - 1826 - 384 oldal
...says, that it was practised by the Jews ; some of the emperors followed it ; and the hair of Commodius is said to have become so fair and bright by its constant...sun shone upon it, his head appeared as if on fire. In Spain, also, a golden yellow was long in such vogue, that ladies who were not blessed with hair...

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2. kötet

Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 oldal
...order to render it very resplendent, a custorn which was practised by the Jews. The hair of the Emperor Commodus is said to have become so fair and bright...the sun shone upon it, his head appeared as if on fire.-f Under the Emperors, the Romans began to wear wigs, the false hair being fixed on a skin. For...




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