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Beauty

bu’ty Noun

An assemblage of graces, or an assemblage of properties in the form of the person or any other object, which pleases the eye. Beauty is intrinsic, and perceived by the eye at the first view, or relative, to perceive which the aid of the understanding and reflection is requisite. The word beauty is used to express what is pleasing to the other senses, or to understanding. Thus we say, the beauty of a thought, of a remark, of sound, etc.

So beauty armed with virtue, bows to the soul

With a commanding, but a sweet control

Also:

In the arts, symmetry of parts; harmony; justness of composition.

Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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