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For, when with beauty we can virtue join,
We paint the semblance of a form divine.
e. PRIOR-To the Countess of Oxford.
No longer shall the bodice aptly lac'd
From thy full bosom to thy slender waist,
That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.
f.

PRIOR-Henry and Emma. L. 429.

Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy, when they love? g. NICHOLAS ROWE-The Fair Penitent. Act III. Sc. 1. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

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For her own person,

It beggar'd all description.

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L. 94.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 202.

Heaven bless thee! Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on; Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel.

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Her beauty makes This vault a feasting presence full of light. ሀ. Romeo and Juliet. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 85.

I'll not shed her blood;

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SCOTT-Lady of the Lake. Canto I.

St. 18.

There was a soft and pensive grace,
A cast of thought upon her face,
That suited well the forehead high,
The eyelash dark, and downcast eye;

1. SCOTT-Rokeby. Canto IV. St. 5.

Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.

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Her face so faire, as flesh it seemed not,
But heavenly pourtraict of bright angels' hew,
Cleare as the skye withouten blame or blot,
Through goodly mixture of complexion's dew.
i. SPENSER-Faerie Queene. Canto III.
St. 22.

They seemed to whisper: "How handsome she is!

What wavy tresses! what sweet perfume!
Under her mantle she hides her wings;
Her flower of a bonnet is just in bloom."
j. E. C. STEDMAN-Translation. Jean
Prouvaire's Song at the Barricade.

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Loveliness

Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorn'd adorn'd the most.
THOMSON-The Seasons. Autumn.
L. 204.
Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self.
q.
THOMSON-The Seasons. Autumn.
L. 209.

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep. T. RALPH VENNING-Orthodoxe Paradoxes (Third Edition, 1650). The Triumph of Assurance. P. 41.

The yielding marble of her snowy breast. EDMUND WALLER-On a Lady Passing through a Crowd of People.

8.

Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flowery meads in May,
If she be not so to me,

What care I how fair she be?

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Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive, though a happy place.

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Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair,
Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair,
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful Dawn.
WORDSWORTH-She was a Phantom of

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Delight.

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His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;

The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast. 1. GOLDSMITH-Deserted Village, L. 149.

To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who feares to aske, doth teach to be deny'd. m. HERRICK-No Bashfulnesse in Begging.

A beggar through the world am I,
From place to place I wander by.
Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me,
For Christ's sweet sake and charity.
LOWELL-The Beggar.

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FATHER PROUT (Francis Mahony).

The Bells of Shandon.

And the Sabbath bell,

That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy. SAMUEL ROGERS-Human Life. L. 517.

m.

And this be the vocation fit,

For which the founder fashioned it:
High, high above earth's life, earth's labor
E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.
To hover as the thunder's neighbor,
The very firmament explore.
To be a voice as from above
Like yonder stars so bright and clear,
That praise their Maker as they move,
And usher in the circling year.
Tun'd be its metal mouth alone
To things eternal and sublime.
And as the swift wing'd hours speed on
May it record the flight of time!
SCHILLER-Song of the Bell.

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Through the bride's fair locks so dear
Twines the virgin chaplet bright,
When the church bells ringing clear
To the joyous feast invite.
p. SCHILLER-Song of the Bell.
E. A. Bowring's Trans.

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. 9. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 166.

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