Literary notes about beautiful (AI summary)
The word “beautiful” in literature is employed to evoke not only striking visual imagery but also deeper layers of meaning, merging the tangible with the abstract. It is used to describe physical allure—a maiden with transparent garments soaring to the clouds [1] or an exquisitely picturesque lakelet [2]—while also capturing the essence of intangible qualities such as truth and virtue, as seen in musings on inner beauty and artistic inspiration [3, 4]. Moreover, “beautiful” bridges the natural and the human-made, characterizing everything from the charm of a blossoming landscape [5] to the allure found in personal attributes and symbolic objects [6, 7, 8].
- And on its pages I saw a beautiful representation of a maiden in transparent garments and with a transparent body, flying up to the clouds.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - Loch Ard is a beautiful lakelet, about five miles south of Loch Katrine.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott - It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - We admire the beautiful face, the beautiful form, but we love the face illumined by a beautiful soul.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - And first and before all, we cannot forget that this world is beautiful.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois - Is there anything “beautiful in itself” ?
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - As no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - It is through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, the socially beautiful.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
