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John Milton on Beauty

1608–1674 England

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She fair, divinely fair, fit love for gods.

Yet beauty, tho' injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain
Love once possess'd.

Samson Agonistes (1671)

Beauty stands in the admiration only of weak minds led captive.

Paradise Regained (1671)

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded,
But must be current, and the good thereof
Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

Comus (1637)

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld
Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep,
Shot forth peculiar graces.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown
In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities,
Where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Comus (1637)

And ladies of the Hesperides, that seemed
Fairer than feign'd of old.

Paradise Regained (1671)

In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.

... for beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes
Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

Paradise Regained (1671)

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