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... looks as clear As morning roses , newly wet with dew . Steele . Scott . Shakspeare . Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament , But is when unadorned , adorned the most . Shakspeare . Oh , how I grudge the grave this heavenly ...
... looks as clear As morning roses , newly wet with dew . Steele . Scott . Shakspeare . Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament , But is when unadorned , adorned the most . Shakspeare . Oh , how I grudge the grave this heavenly ...
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... look up to , though glorious and fair , Is looked up to the more because heaven is there . Beauty is a beam from heaven , That dazzles blind our reason . Moore . Campbell . For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile . Campbell . Oh ...
... look up to , though glorious and fair , Is looked up to the more because heaven is there . Beauty is a beam from heaven , That dazzles blind our reason . Moore . Campbell . For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile . Campbell . Oh ...
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... look ! Oh , where's the heart so wise Could , unbewildered , meet those matchless eyes ? Quick , restless , strange , but exquisite withal , Like those of angels just before their fall . Moore . Then her lip , so rich in blisses , Sweet ...
... look ! Oh , where's the heart so wise Could , unbewildered , meet those matchless eyes ? Quick , restless , strange , but exquisite withal , Like those of angels just before their fall . Moore . Then her lip , so rich in blisses , Sweet ...
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... 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 . Lilly . Daniel . Aleyn . Beauty is a witch , Against whose charms faith melteth 26 BEAUTY .
... 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 . Lilly . Daniel . Aleyn . Beauty is a witch , Against whose charms faith melteth 26 BEAUTY .
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... look , give me a face That makes simplicity a grace- Robes loosely flowing , hair as free ! Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art , Patterson . That strike mine eyes , but not my heart . Ben Jonson . Her eyes ...
... look , give me a face That makes simplicity a grace- Robes loosely flowing , hair as free ! Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art , Patterson . That strike mine eyes , but not my heart . Ben Jonson . Her eyes ...
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Coleridge 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 Madame de Staël maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure 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