We shun because we prize her Face 1
Lest sight's ineffable disgrace
Our Adoration stain
Lest sight's ineffable disgrace
Our Adoration stain
(F.1430/J.1429)
[1] We:: readers. her:: a journalist, hinted by ineffable. shun, Face:: avoid to read her articles to value her image.
[2] sight:: opinion, judgment. ineffable:: a) unable to describe in language; b) an anonymous journalist (OED ineffable B.n.2). ineffable disgrace:: a journalist's disgrace of failing to express a sight.
by her Letter of a Female Journalist to a Friend, published December 18, 1807. "My articles are censured , are they, my friend? That, of course, is to their credit; but you tell me the censure extends to me personally,－to the stand I have taken as contributor to a journal, and especially as a critic of theatrical novelties. ─ Portraits of Celebrated Women (1868)
