Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power.
"'From fairest creatures we desire increase,' he says, 'that thereby beauty's rose may never die'".
That piece of another bull hanging from his back has freed him from the middle-of-the-night butcher's knife because a clever farmer realizes that he has before his eyes a fair animal, a circus creature, to show off to journalists at the agricultural fairs.
And how the hell are we going to make these tar babies look like God's fair chosen creatures?
Charles Dickens added to the frenzy when he visited Laura in 1842 and waxed lyrical in his "American Notes" over the "fair young creature" whose face was "radiant with intelligence and pleasure," a figure much like his own Little Nell, "a kind of allegory".
The prospective mother-in-law, another enormous fair-skinned creature, looked around at the ceiling and the corners of the house.
To be fair to the creatures, they're not swarming or invading or coming out of hibernation.
"And having a bit of a chat with the soft, fair, waif-like, moist creatures you find in ladies' sports".
To patent a novel gene construct used in this or that creature seems fair enough, as it is truly inventive.
In a later work, "Liberation of Andromeda" (pictured, detail), based on an Ovid tale, an airborne Perseus daintily alights on the monster about to make mincemeat of the fair maiden and belabours the creature with his puny sword.
We will be fine with it, Dr. Dyson has said, when children start breeding miniature dinosaurs with rabbit ears and other exotic creatures for science fairs the way horticulturists turn out new breeds of tomatoes.
