beauties quotes

Atrue critic oughtto dwell rather uponexcellenciesthan imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

-Joseph Addison
  In The Spectator, no.291, 2 Feb.

Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north.

-Joseph Addison
  Cato, act1, sc.4, l.134^5.

   Brissit brawnis and broken banis Stryfe discorde and waistis wanis Crukit in eild, syne halt withal, This are the bewteis of the fute-ball.

-Anonymous
  The Maitland Manuscript,'The Bewteis of the Fute-ball'.

Helen, did Homer never see Thy beauties, yet could write of thee?

- Ben Jonson
The Underwood,'An Ode' (published1640).

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

- Alexander Pope
  The Rape of the Lock, canto 5, l.33^4.

Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own.

- Alexander Pope
  The Dunciad, bk.1, l.139^40.

So when I am wearied with wandering all day; To thee my delight in the evening I come: No matter what beauties I saw in my way: They were but my visits; but thou art my home.

- Matthew Prior
  'A BetterAnswer', stanza 6.