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... fair sex should be always fair , and no man Fill thirty should perceive there's a plain woman . What is beauty ? Not the show Of shapely limbs and features . No ! Byron . These are but flowers , that have their dated hours To breathe ...
... fair sex should be always fair , and no man Fill thirty should perceive there's a plain woman . What is beauty ? Not the show Of shapely limbs and features . No ! Byron . These are but flowers , that have their dated hours To breathe ...
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... fair , All that the gaudy heavens could drop down glorious . Lee . To beauty what man but maun yield him a prize , In her armor of glances and blushes and sighs ? And when wit and refinement have polished her darts , They dazzle our ...
... fair , All that the gaudy heavens could drop down glorious . Lee . To beauty what man but maun yield him a prize , In her armor of glances and blushes and sighs ? And when wit and refinement have polished her darts , They dazzle our ...
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... fair to live retired ? For what is beauty if it be not seen ? Or what is't to be seen if not admired ? So fair that had you Beauty's picture took , It must like her , or not like Beauty , look . Daniel Aleyn . Beauty is a witch ...
... fair to live retired ? For what is beauty if it be not seen ? Or what is't to be seen if not admired ? So fair that had you Beauty's picture took , It must like her , or not like Beauty , look . Daniel Aleyn . Beauty is a witch ...
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... fair . Thus Beauty lures the full - grown child , With hue as bright and wing as wild ; A chase of idle hopes and fears , Begun in folly , closed in tears . The light of love , the purity of grace , Crabbe Byron . The mind , the music ...
... fair . Thus Beauty lures the full - grown child , With hue as bright and wing as wild ; A chase of idle hopes and fears , Begun in folly , closed in tears . The light of love , the purity of grace , Crabbe Byron . The mind , the music ...
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... fair and smooth ; Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow ; Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth , Mounting , at times , to a transparent glow , As if her veins ran lightning . I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would ...
... fair and smooth ; Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow ; Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth , Mounting , at times , to a transparent glow , As if her veins ran lightning . I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would ...
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Colton Cowper dark death doth Dryden earth enemy eyes face fate faults fear feel Ferrold flower folly fool fortune friendship genius give glow Goethe Goldsmith grace Greville grief grow happiness hath Hazlitt heart heaven hope human husband Joanna Baillie Johnson kiss La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld Lavater life's light lips live Longfellow look love's lover maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Montesquieu Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure Polly Esther Pope pride proud Proverb Rochefoucauld scorn Scott sense Shakspeare sighs sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spanish Proverb speak sweet Sydney Smith tears tender thee There's things thou hast thought tongue trust truth vice virtue warm wife wise woman women wooed words Wordsworth Young youth