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The blushing cheek speaks modest mind, The lips befitting words most kind, The eye does tempt to love's desire, And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire." - James Harrington (Harington) Blushing is the colour of virtue. - Matthew (Mathew) Henry, Commentaries (Jeremiah, III) Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn. - Thomas Hood, Ruth One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men." - Joseph Joubert Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.] - Jean de la Bruyere, Les Caracteres (II) Had he not long read the heart's hushed secret in the soft, dark eye, lighted at his approach, and on the cheek, coloring all crimson at his lightest look? - Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Mrs. George MacLean) On her cheek blushes the richness of an autumn sky with ever-shifting beau-ty. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The rose was budded in her cheek, just opening to the view. - David Mallet (originally Malloch) Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Don Garcie de Navarre (II, 5) Playful blushes, that seemed nought But luminous escapes of thought. - Thomas Moore Young roses kindled into thought. - Thomas Moore While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. - Thomas Moore, Evenings in Greece (Evening, II, Song) Blushes are the rainbow of modesty. - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker The inconvenience or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater? - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker Give me the eloquent cheek, When blushes burn and die Like thine its changes speak, The spirit's purity. - Frances Sargent Osgood The modest fan was lifted up no more, and virgins smiled at what they blushed before. - Alexander Pope From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses. - Nicholas Rowe, Tamerlane (act I, sc. 1) Like the last beam of evening thrown on a white cloud, just seen and gone. - Sir Walter Scott Bid the cheek be ready with a blush, modest as Morning when she coldly eyes the youthful Phoebus. - William Shakespeare By noting of the lady I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames, In angel whiteness bear away those blushes. - William Shakespeare Such war of white and red within her cheeks. - William Shakespeare The heart's meteors tilting in the face. - William Shakespeare I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no. - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Coriolanus at I, ix) Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother By yielding up thy body to my will, Or else he must not only die the death, But thy unkindess shall his death draw out To ling'ring sufferance. - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, iv) I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes, And in her eye there hath appeared a fire To burn the errors that these princes hold Against her maiden truth. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Friar Francis at IV, i) Displaying page 2 of 3 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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