"Beautiful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up; I only know that the old fellow's daughter, the Princess Bernardino is the most beautiful, the most bewitching creature that ever breathed. Did you notice her eyes and form? Great heavens! was there ever such a vision of human loveliness? Her grace, her voice, her glances drove me wild ...
— The Land of the Changing Sun • William N. Harben
... grandfather, we can go back, for grandmamma told me so, and so it was in the beautiful tale in my book—but you have not heard that yet; but we shall be home directly now, and then I will read it you, and you will see how beautiful it is." And in her eagerness Heidi struggled faster and faster up ...
— Heidi • Johanna Spyri
... to old England the beautiful! Farewell to my old pals as well! Farewell to the famous Old Ba-i-ly (Whistle). Where I used for to cut sich ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
... 13, and explained briefly what charity meant there; adding that this gathering was very like one of the Agapae of the early Christians—a remark I had not expected to hear in that assembly. Then there was another hymn, "Beautiful Land of Rest," when it did one good to hear the unction with which the second syllable of the ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies
... king Frederick II (1740- 1786); on the other, the young queen Maria Theresa (1740-1780). Both had ability and sincere devotion to their respective states and peoples,—a high sense of royal responsibilities. Maria Theresa was beautiful, emotional, and proud; the Great Frederick was domineering, cynical, and always rational. The Austrian princess was a firm believer in Catholic Christianity; the Prussian king was a friend of Voltaire and a ...
— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes
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