1843Thomas Carlyle: Paste and Present (page 15)Many men eat finer cookery, drink dearer liquors ... but in the heart of them, if we go out of the dyspeptic stomach, what increase of blessedness is there? Are they better, beautifuller, stronger, braver?
1854 -- Gerald Massey -- Poems and Ballads (page 82)They were three Spirits fresh from God's own hand,And beautifuller ne'er took mortal mould
1885 -- Walter Geikie --- ''Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's (page 54)I've travell'd the world all overAnd many a place besideAnd I never did see a beautifuller cityThan that on the banks of the navigatable river, the Clyde.
