You may have noticed that the quatrefoil used in the Ducal Palace of Venice owes its complete loveliness in distant effect to the finishing of its cusps.
Similarly, in a good poem, each word and thought enhances the value of those which precede and follow it; and every syllable has a loveliness which depends not so much on its abstract sound as on its position.
One is apt always to generalise too quickly in such matters; but there can be no question that lustre is destructive of loveliness in colour, as it is of intelligibility in form.
Dear loveliness so mercifully pressed Against my heart--I shake with sudden fear To think--to losing thee I came so near.
She sat alore in the little garden beside the cottage door, and I paused, and, unseen, looked over the slight fence that separated us, and fed my eyes with a loveliness that I thought till then only twilight or the stars could wear!
O eldest and most solemn Earth, blending even thy loveliness and joy with a terror and an awe!
I was getting little out of her chatter except the music of her voice and the picture of loveliness that she made.
I rose and came to the door, trying to smile, but making, I fancy, rather sorry work of it, for the sight of her loveliness brought home to me the more poignantly the cause of my wretchedness.
All rarest charms that be unite to make him fair, His witching loveliness distracts the human race.
Slender and sleepy-eyed and languorous of gait, All manner loveliness is in her sweetest sight.
It is indeed for loveliness a very Paradise, With all its goodly carpet[FN#84] spread and cushions richly wrought.
But when the Gods have removed him, it sometimes happens that the ravages caused by the annoyances of marriage disappear, and she reverts to the freshness and loveliness of her virginity.
Her face seemed to shine with a supernatural light--it had acquired a loveliness and transparency as of an angel--her eyes were upraised and fixed as in a trance, and her arms were outspread.
The peaceful loveliness soothed his spirit because he loved it, but in her it awakened a vague, swift ache.
Why, there is more lavish loveliness in a dandelion than there is in an imported orchid; and I fancy we should tire of the Nightingale, if we had to exchange for him our sweet poet of common day, the Song Sparrow.
On the 15th of March a flock of fifty Bluebirds, all males, were sighted flying in close order over the mountain-side, a vision of loveliness which was enhanced by the presence of a dozen or more Westerns.
All seemed half wild with delight; and the adventures they had had on the road, the loveliness of the villa, and the courtesy they had been met with, resounded on every side.
The great in the arts of peace and war, and that loveliness which surpasses in its fascination all other rewards, are around me, and I call upon these to drink to the health of Digby Norcott.
The enchantment of the night's loveliness swept through her sensitive pulses and thrilled her with the mystery of the great life of which she was an atom.
Nothing can exceed the loveliness of this part of France; it is indeed exquisite, and doubly pleasing from its rarity.
The dewy mists were slowly rising from the valley, which smiled in all the fresh loveliness of morning, as they gradually rolled off, and settled round the brows of the higher mountains like a shadowy veil.
Behold the woman as thou first didst know her, A loveliness to tempt or saint or devil, The rare quintessence of pure womanhood!
The memory of her loveliness Pervades my waking dreams, and, pleasant theft, Deprives my sleep of dark oblivion.
The loveliness of the world of forest and sky would on ordinary occasions have driven her to wild abandon, sent her flying over fields and fences as far removed as possible from the genteel.
He is a portion of theloveliness Which once he made more lovely.
And a night of more loveliness and lustre never was unveiled to the eye of mortals.
Apart from the natural loveliness of the harbour, it has, indeed, no claims to consideration at present.
As her eye dwelt on the loveliness of the surrounding scene, perhaps for the first time she understood the enthusiasm of those nature lovers who are content only when in the country.
The moment could not have been more propitious; her loveliness of attitude and look must, she felt, contrast most advantageously with Felicia's sullen stiffness.
Wolfframb of Eschinbach, deeply moved by her loveliness and charm, fell in love with her at first sight, and the other masters, inspired by her beauty, celebrated her in many a tuneful lay.
The winter was over; the beautiful spring shone forth, and blossomed in all its loveliness in wood and meadow.
