Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,—
Too credulous lover
Of blest and unblest?
Say, when in lapsed ages
Thee knew I of old?
Or what was the service
For which I was sold?
Each ornament about her seemly lies,
By curious chance, or careless art composed.
Any color, so long as it's red,
Is the color that suits me best,
Though I will allow there is much to be said
For yellow and green and the rest.
In beauty, faults conspicuous grow;
The smallest speck is seen on snow.
Schon war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
I too was fair, and that was my undoing.
Goethe
| work = Faust. I. 25. 30.
Handsome is that handsome does.
Goldsmith
| work = The Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. I.
Fielding
| work = Tom Jones.
| place = Bk. rV. Ch. XII.
'Tis impious pleasure to delight in harm.
And beauty should be kind, as well as charm.
The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in
its round,
That never has been fathomed yet by myriad
thoughts profound.
Hapiz
| work = Odes. CXLIII.
. ..
There's beauty ail around our paths, if but our
watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through
their lowly guise.
Felicia D. Hemans
| work = Our Daily Paths.
Many a temptation comes to us in fine, gay
colours that are but skin deep.
Matthew Henry
| work = Commentaries. Genesis.
Ch. III.
| seealso = (See also Overbury, Ruskin, Venning
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| text = <poem>Beauty draws more than oxen.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
Holmes
| work = Professor at the Breakfast Table. II,
A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay.
Homer
| work = Odyssey.
| place = Bk. VI. L. 22
| note = Pope's trans.
O matre pulchra filia pulchrior.
O daughter, more beautiful than thy lovely
mother.
Horacei
| work = Carmina. I. 16. 1.
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| place =
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| num = 15
| text = Nihil est ab omni
Parte beatum.
Nothing is beautiful from every point of "
view.
Horace
| work = Carmina. II. 16. 27.
Sith Nature thus gave her the praise,
To be the chiefest work she wrought,
In faith, methink, some better ways
On your behalf might well be sought,
Than to compare, as ye have done,
To match the candle with the sun.
Henry Howard
| work = Sonnet to the Fair Gerall
dine. "Hold their farthing candles to the
sun." See Young, under Authorship.
Tell me, shepherds, have you seen
My Flora pass this way?
In shape and feature Beauty's queen,
In pastoral array.
The Wreath
| work = From The Lyre. Vol. III. P.
27. (Ed. 1824 ) First lines also in a song
by Dr. Samuel Howard.
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
Victor Hugo
| work = Eviradnus. V.
Rara est adeo concordia formse
Atque pudicitia.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JuvENAiP^Saiiresr Xr~297;
A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for 1 us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet
breathing.
Keats
| work = Endymion.
| place = Bk. I. L. 1.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
Keats
| work = Ode on a Grecian Urn.
L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la
regularite 1 des traits est dans les femmes: c'est
le genre de beauts ou les plus vains puissent
aspirer.
A look of intelligence in men is what regularity of features is in women: it is a style of
beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
La Bruyère
| work = Les Caractères. XII.
'Tis beauty calls, and glory shows the way.
Nathaniel Lee
| work = Alexander the Great; or, The
Rival Queens. Act IV. Sc. 2.
| note = ("Leads the way" in stage ed.)
| topic =
| page = 59
}}
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| text = <poem>Beautiful in form and feature,
Lovely as the day,
Can there be so fair a creature
Formed of common clay?
| author = Longfellow
| work = Masque of Pandora. TheWorkshop of Hephosstus. Chorus of the Graces.
