Beauty, Lasting
63. Beauty, Lasting
- Célimène beauty not diminished by character or age. [Fr. Drama: The Misanthrope ]
- Mona Lisa La Gioconda, da Vinci’s enchanting portrait. [Ital. Art: Wallechinsky, 190]
- My Last Duchess poem about a wife whose beauty is frozen in portrait. [Br. Lit.: “My Last Duchess” in Norton, 757–758]
- stock symbolizes enduring loveliness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]
- unravished bride her portrait fixed in clay, she cannot fade but will be forever fair. [Br. Poetry: Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”]
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