He was in advance of his time when he said in 1870 that the object of his art professorship would be accomplished if "the English nation could be made to understand that the beauty which is indeed to be a joy forever must be a joy for all.

and lend unto my mynd Leave to bethinke how great that Beautie is, Whose utmost* parts so beautifull I fynd; How much more those essentiall parts of His, His truth, his love, his wisedome, and his blis, 110 His grace, his doome**, his mercy, and his might, By which he lends us of himselfe a sight!

How vainely then do ydle wits invent That Beautie is nought else but mixture made 65 Of colours faire, and goodly temp'rament Of pure complexions, that shall quickly fade And passe away, like to a sommers shade; Or that it is but comely composition Of parts well measurd, with meet disposition!

I can tell Parthenissa for her Comfort, That the Beauties, generally speaking, are the most impertinent and disagreeable of Women.

Beauty is the common object of all love, "as jet draws a straw, so doth beauty love:" virtue and honesty are great motives, and give as fair a lustre as the rest, especially if they be sincere and right, not fucate, but proceeding from true form, and an incorrupt judgment; those two Venus' twins, Eros and Anteros, are then most firm and fast.

The Sultan kept his word, and the tall beauty is now the mother of the dwarfs children.

As beauty is not beauty without virtue: so music is not music without art.

why drag you thus a prince's wife, As if that beauty were a thrall to fate? Are Romans grown more barbarous than Greeks, That hate more greater than Cassandra now?

" "Beauty is the reason which presides at the creation of things; it is the invisible power which draws us and subjugates us in them.

Beauty is a consequence, an effect, a form of the Beautiful.

Francis Thompson expresses the idea very beautifully when he says: I cannot tell what beauty is her dole, Who cannot see her features for her soul.

the beauty of a man is strength and courage, and power and will and ability.

Beauty is also a great possession, and that is another conception, another mystery.

Her beauty was an instrument for sounding the depths of consciences, a key for opening secrets; and this servitude had turned out worse than the former ones, on account of its being irremediable,she had tried to divorce herself from her life of tantalizing tourist and theatrical woman; but whoever enters into the secret service can nevermore go from it.

" The young lady at Greenway Court was Mary Gary, and the Lowland beauty was Betsy Fauntleroy, whose hand Washington twice sought, but who became the wife of the Hon.

This is not all; the fair, for whom they strove, Nor knew before, nor could suspect their love; Nor thought, when she beheld the sight from far, Her beauty was the occasion of the war.

There is not much profundity of criticism, because the beauties are sentiments of nature, which the learned and the ignorant feel alike.

Damn dirty trash, your Beauty is sufficienthum Signior Don Antonio, get the Writings ready.

Strange men, stranger things, and strange cities I have seen since I parted from you, But your beauty, your love, and your wit is A charm that has still held me true, And tho' mighty has been the temptation, Your image prevail'd over all, And I still held the fond adoration For one I must meet at the Ball.

if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!

Beauty became an extravagance, as if top-hats and umbrellas were not the real extravagancea landscape from the land of the goblins.

The beauty of the district was one attraction, but the prospect of sharing the society of Mr. Wordsworth was a greater attraction.

"As the species of beauty are taken at our eyes, ears, or conceived in our inner soul," as Plato disputes at large in his Dialogue de pulchro, Phaedro, Hyppias, and after many sophistical errors confuted, concludes that beauty is a grace in all things, delighting the eyes, ears, and soul itself; so that, as Valesius infers hence, whatsoever pleaseth our ears, eyes, and soul, must needs be beautiful, fair, and delightsome to us.

Beauty persecuted by a snake is the subject of the story.

Beauty is aesthetic truth.