[Pointing out into the moonlight] Look! Orpheus with his lute, and nobody can see him. Beauty, beauty, beauty--we let it go. [With sudden passion] Beauty, love, the spring. They should be in us, and they're all outside.英文原著 · 《Four Short Plays》
But this alchemy is, you know, only the material counterpart of a poet's craving for Beauty, the eternal Beauty. 'The makers of gold and the makers of verse,' they are the twin creators that sway the world's secret desire for mystery; and what in my father is the genius of curiosity--the very essence of all scientific genius--in me is the desire for beauty. Do you remember Pater's phrase about Leonardo da Vinci, 'curiosity and the desire of beauty'?"英文原著 · 《The Golden Threshold》
Zoe settled in one moment that she was downright plain, but might probably be that mysterious and incomprehensible and dangerous creature, "a gentleman's beauty," which, to women, means no beauty at all, but a witch-like creature, that goes and hits foul, and eclipses real beauty--dolls, to wit--by some mysterious magic.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
The woods and fields out there were dropping to sleep too, in the last glimmer of the summer light. And beauty, like a spirit, walked. 'I've had a long life,' he thought, 'the best of nearly everything. I'm an ungrateful chap; I've seen a lot of beauty in my time. Poor young Bosinney said I had a sense of beauty. There's a man in the moon to-night!' A moth went by, another, another. 'Ladies in grey!' He closed his eyes. A feeling that he would never open them again beset him; he let it grow, let himself sink; then, with a shiver, dragged the lids up.英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
Oh, what if a sound should be made! Oh, what if a bound should be laid To this bow-and-string tension of beauty and silence a-spring, -- To the bend of beauty the bow, or the hold of silence the string! I fear me, I fear me yon dome of diaphanous gleam Will break as a bubble o'er-blown in a dream, -- [91] Yon dome of too-tenuous tissues of space and of night, Over-weighted with stars, over-freighted with light, Over-sated with beauty and silence, will seem But a bubble that broke in a dream, If a bound of degree to this grace be laid, Or a sound or a motion made.英文原著 · 《Select Poems of Sidney Lanier》
The beauty of women is considerably owing to their weakness or delicacy, and is even enhanced by their timidity, a quality of mind analogous to it. I would not here be understood to say, that weakness betraying very bad health has any share in beauty; but the ill effect of this is not because it is weakness, but because the ill state of health, which produces such weakness, alters the other conditions of beauty; the parts in such a case collapse; the bright colour,--the lumen purpureum juventae, is gone; and the fine variation is lost in wrinkles, sudden breaks, and right lines.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
That's a beauty, but not as much a beauty as my peanut right here.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
If my film guy comes in here, he's gonna pick that beauty over this one.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Who wouldn't want a baby with such strength, beauty, and a rack so great it could breast-feed itself?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Are you having a beauty contest and didn't invite me to give the other girls a chance?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
And in fact, what Murray was talking about yesterday in the fractal beauty of nature -- And in fact, what Murray was talking about yesterday in the fractal beauty of nature --演讲 · 《A powerful idea about ideas ~ Alan Kay》