Careful Words

beautiful (adj.)

Why thus longing, thus forever sighing

For the far-off, unattain'd, and dim,

While the beautiful all round thee lying

Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?

Harriet W. Sewall (1819-1889): Why thus longing?

A happy youth, and their old age

Is beautiful and free.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Fountain.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;

She is a woman, therefore to be won.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Sc. 3.

Beautiful as sweet,

And young as beautiful, and soft as young,

And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 81.

And rustic life and poverty

Grow beautiful beneath his touch.

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): Ode to the Memory of Burns.

If God hath made this world so fair,

Where sin and death abound,

How beautiful beyond compare

Will paradise be found!

James Montgomery (1771-1854): The Earth full of God's Goodness.

And both were young, and one was beautiful.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Dream. Stanza 2.

And they were canopied by the blue sky,

So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful

That God alone was to be seen in heaven.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Dream. Stanza 4.

A lady richly clad as she,

Beautiful exceedingly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Christabel. Part i.

  The beautiful eyes of my cash-box.

Jean Baptiste MolièRe (1622-1673): L'Avare. Act v. Sc. 3.

  Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, . . . the city of the great King.

Old Testament: Psalm xlviii. 2.

How beautiful is night!

A dewy freshness fills the silent air;

No mist obscures; nor cloud, or speck, nor stain,

Breaks the serene of heaven:

In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine

Rolls through the dark blue depths;

Beneath her steady ray

The desert circle spreads

Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.

How beautiful is night!

Robert Southey (1774-1843): Thalaba. Book i. Stanza 1.

  I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.

Earl Of Chesterfield (1694-1773): The World. No. 101.

  God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Martin F Tupper (1810-1889): Of Immortality.

And beauty, making beautiful old rhyme.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnet cvi.

  Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

New Testament: Matthew xxiii. 27.

  The palace Beautiful.

John Bunyan (1628-1688): Pilgrim's Progress. Part i.

Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 115.

Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful

In the contempt and anger of his lip!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.