Pope.—Rape of the Lock, Canto II. Line 28.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
Keats.—Endymion, Line 1.
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night,
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear.
Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 5. (Romeo to the Servant.)
BEAUTY.—Let him alone;
There’s nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty.
Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Elder Brother.
The beauty, that of late was in her flow’r, is now a ruin.
Quarles.—Book I. No. IX. Verse 5.