16–22 February 1824

Material beauty perishes or palls. Intellectual ^ beauty limits admiration to seasons and ages ; v hath its ebbs and flows of delight. . . . But moral beauty is lovely, imperishable, perfect. It is dear to the child and to the patriarch, to Heaven, Angel, Man. . . . None that can understand v Milton's Comus can read it without warmings to the holy emotions it panegyrizes.