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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

John Milton
Beauty, Opportunity, Christian Inspirational

Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

John Milton
Beauty, Lying, Eye
'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 75

In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

John Milton
Beauty, Lovely, Naked
John Milton (1749). “Paradise Lost. A Poem. In Twelve Books [Book I. - VI.]: 1”, p.283

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

John Milton
Beauty, Mind, Admiration
John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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

John Milton
Beauty, Grace, Peculiar
John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton..Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by J.M.W. Turner”, p.116

. . . 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.

John Milton
Beauty, Fall, Mind
John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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