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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
william wordsworth— 1837 'At Bologna, In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections: Continued', l.12-14 (published1842).
Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 7, line 81.
Yes, sing the song of the orange-tree, With its leaves of velvet green: With its luscious fruit of sunset hue, The fairest that ever were seen; The grape may have its bacchanal verse, To praise the fig we are free; But homage I pay to the queen of all, The glorious orange-tree.
J. K. Hoyt— The Orange-Tree.
The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
— Collected in Charles H Kahn The Art and Thought of Heraclitus (1979).
And I will fare to Avalun, to the fairest of all maidens, to Argante the queen, an elf most fair, and she shall make my wounds all sound.
— c.1190 Brut (translated by Eugene Mason,1912).
My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heav'n's last best gift, my ever new delight.
john milton— 1665 Adam to Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.18-19.
O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost
john milton— 1665 Adam to Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.896-91.
Fair and fair, and twice so fair, As fair as any may be; The fairest shepherd on our green, A love for any lady.
George Peele— 1584 TheArraignment of Paris, act1, sc.5.
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.
Francis Thompson— 'Daisy' (published1890).
The fairest things have fleetest end,Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitternessTo him that loved the rose.
Francis Thompson— Daisy (1893), st. 10.
Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light, To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.
joseph addison— Act I, scene ii.
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
orson scott card— Chapter 9 (Seventh Son (1987))
The brightest blades grow dim with rust, The fairest meadow white with snow.
— Chanson without Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A sweet content Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.
richard henry horne— Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii.
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Canto V (Queen Mab (1813))
There is a sentimental poetry, and it will have to be exposed (not censored. certainly; for to omit criticism of it would deprive us of our fairest chance to combat the sentimental rhetoric of the student’s environment).
richard weaver— “The Power of the Word,” p. 52
Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.
richard weaver— “The Power of the Word,” p. 53
Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters, Eve.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 323.
Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light, To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, scene 2.
And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.
Heinrich Heine— Heinrich Heine, The Lorelei, Stanza 3.
The fairest things have fleetest end: Their scent survives their close, But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose!
Francis Thompson— Francis Thompson, Daisy, Stanza 10.
Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VIII, line 30.
Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land."
jean ingelow— Jean Ingelow, Winstanley, The Apology.
Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima . Translated: "Most learned of the fair; fairest of the learned".
— Attributed to Sannazarius by Greswell in his Memoirs of Politian, inscribed to Cassandra Marchesia an edition of his Italian Poems, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
"Aye," said Math, "let us seek, thou and I, by our magic and enchantment to conjure a wife for him out of flowers"...And then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they called forth the very fairest and best endowed maiden that mortal ever saw, and baptized her with the baptism they used at that time, and named her Blodeuedd.
— "Math Son of Mathonwy", Mabinogion (Jones and Jones, 1989, p. 68).
The fairest flowers o' the season Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 81.
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
— As translated by Philip Wheelwright in Heraclitus (1959).
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie, Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store, Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.
robert southwell— Robert Southwell, Content and Rich (Look Home).
fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
james montgomery— James Montgomery, Humility.
