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Her hair bound backward in a spiral wreath
Her upper beauties to my sight betray’d,
The happy stream concealing those beneath.

— Samuel Croxall The Fair Circassian, &c (1721)

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Beauty

More quotes by Samuel Croxall

Fair as an Ivory Column’s tow’ring Height,
Her lofty Neck advances to the Sight.

The Fair Circassian (1729)

The Joints with Dimples smiling; and above,
The Spring of Bliss, the bubbling Fount of Love.
Plump is her Belly, but how smoothly plain!
Like Fields of Wheat impregnated with Rain.

The Fair Circassian, &c (1721)

I saw Elysium and the milky way
Fair-opening to the shades beneath her breast;
In Venus’ lap the struggling wanton lay,
And, while she strove to hide, reveal’d the rest.
A mole, embrown’d with no unseemly grace,
Grew near, embellishing the sacred place.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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