Beautiful ( page 76 ).
Questions.
1. What is necessary to constitute an object or a person beautiful? 2. Can beautiful be said of that which is harsh and ragged, however grand? 3. How is beautiful related to our powers of appreciation? 4. How does pretty compare with beautiful? handsome? 5. What does fair denote? comely? picturesque?
Examples.
I pray thee, O God, that I may be —— within.
A happy youth, and their old age is —— and free.
'Twas sung, how they were —— in their lives
And in their death had not divided been.
How —— has the day been, how bright was the sun.
How lovely and joyful the course that he run.
Though he rose in a mist when his race he began
And there followed some droppings of rain!