Careful Words

visage (n.)

visage (v.)

With devotion's visage

And pious action we do sugar o'er

The devil himself.

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

I saw Othello's visage in his mind.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act i. Sc. 3.

  To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661): Holy and Profane State. The Virtuous Lady.

On his bold visage middle age

Had slightly press'd its signet sage,

Yet had not quench'd the open truth

And fiery vehemence of youth:

Forward and frolic glee was there,

The will to do, the soul to dare.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lady of the Lake. Canto i. Stanza 21.