“Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Crudel, che tal beltà turba e consuma.
Canto IV, stanza 77 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“Beautiful as sweet!
And young as beautiful! and soft as young!
And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 81.
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