perfectly well turn 'd and fashion 'd , the proud stiffness of which distended its skin , whose smooth polish and velvet softness might vie with that of the most delicate of our sex , and whose exquisite whiteness was not a little set off by a sprout of black curling hair round the root ; then the broad and blueish casted incarnate of the head , and blue serpentines of its veins , altogether compos 'd the most striking assemblage of figures and colors in nature .