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Few would at first sight have called her face beautiful, but none could deny the beauty of her hands. Ungloved at present, they lay on the open pages of the book, unsurpassable for delicate loveliness.
Poet and musician, b. at Witham, Essex, and ed. at Camb., and on the Continent, studied law at Gray's Inn, but discarding it, practised medicine in London. He wrote masques, and many fine lyrics remarkable for their metrical beauty, of which "Cherry Ripe" and "Lesbia" are well known.
Around on the heights, one is told, "There was Mæcenas' villa, there Sallust's, and there Horace's," but I believe the truth is doubtful, though the positions are such as might have been chosen for their commanding beauty.
She gazed with despondent eyes on the youth before her, on his aristocratic beauty the artist's brow, the splendid hair, everything that appealed to her suppressed feminine instincts, and tiny tears moistened her eyes for an instant and immediately dried up. She looked like one of those meagre statues which the sculptors of the Middle Ages carved on monuments.
"I doff my beaver to thy Switzerland, friend Melchior," cried the Signor Grimaldi, after directing the attention of Adelheid to one of the peaks of Savoy, of which he had just remarked that it seemed a spot where an angel might love to light in his visits to the earth; "if thou hast much of this, we of Italy must look to it, or by the shades of our fathers! we shall lose our reputation for natural beauty.
'Venice is dead, Venice is deserted, her citizens will tell you, but perhaps this last charm the charm of decay was not vouchsafed her in the very heyday of the flower and majesty of her beauty.
Her father rose with her, and kept her hand drawn through his arm. "Miss Manette, look upon the prisoner." To be confronted with such pity, and such earnest youth and beauty, was far more trying to the accused than to be confronted with all the crowd.
It was once a beautiful faubourg, now known as the Garden District, where the people live outdoors in a fine old aristocratic way, and where all the beauty in nature seen in the other sections of the city seems to be outdone.
She serves us better and more eagerly than many a man, and while I appreciate your daughter's beauty, she never tires of lauding the winning charm of her innocence." "And Kasana is to take part in the plot?" cried the soldier angrily. "Not as an active worker, like my wife, certainly not."
There is no feast like the feast in the open the feast in the flaring light of a night fire the feast of your own kill, with the tang of the wild and the tang of the smoke in it! It all came back there by the smoldering fires the wonder and the beauty and the awe of being alive. We had eaten hugely a giant feast. There had been no formalities about that meal.
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