Though not without amenity and grace, they wanted that boldness, sublimity, and poetic enthusiasm by which the bards of the Greek republics were inspired.
The country then was not relished as we are apt to enjoy it, for the sake of exercise or rural pastimes, but solely for its amenity and repose, and the mental tranquillity which it diffused.
As one of the illuminated, Mr. Verity did not escape the prevailing infection, although an inborn amenity of disposition saved him from atheism in its more blatantly offensive forms.
The two first gifts of the white man, at all events, add nothing to the amenity of character, and happen to be precisely the gifts they could most vividly appreciate.
Even in the houses of the middle classes the furniture was rich and comfortable, and there was an air of amenity in the chambers and parlors strewn with sweet herbs and daily decked with pretty nosegays and fragrant flowers.
My Mother, underneath an exquisite amenity of manner, concealed a rigour of spirit which took the form of a constant self-denial.
We had him carried by our people to his lodgings, where, after shifting and brandying to some tune, he took his place at the breakfast table, and did the honours with his usual amenity and warm heartedness.
I will always bear witness to the extreme amenity with which I was now treated by the French officers.
Her recent elevation had not changed the usual amenity of her disposition.
No doubt the greater luxuriance in foliage and vegetation which adorns Simla is in some measure due to the presence of the European visitors who prevent the trees from being cut, and protect in other ways the amenity of the place.
Their amenitytowards the foreigner is due, I apprehend, to temperament, as much, at least, as to the recollection of the violence which they may have sustained at his hands.
With what amenity he spoke to us in these last days!
All bowed ceremoniously to the count, and he returned their bows with that grace and amenity peculiar to him.
So ripe was that life, more than two thousand years ago, that it is hard to say what they did not know, of the things which make for amenity and comity.
She has sacrificed the amenity of her streets and the dignity of her buildings to the false god of Speed.
Lancelot Addison, by the vulgar coarseness of his style, forms an admirable contrast with the amenity and grace of his son's Spectators.
Leading me then securely, we descended into a great valley, which on one side was dark, except where lighted by ardent furnaces, while the amenity of the other was so pleasant and splendid, that I cannot describe it.
Now that this little contre-temps is no longer an obstacle," I resumed, "permit me to continue those inquiries which you have hitherto answered with so much amenity and so satisfactorily.
That of a certainty; yet these familiar pages of youth testify most of all for me perhaps to the forces of amenity and spontaneity, the happy working of all relations, in our family life.
The pamphlet of 1730, however, is a eulogy of the ethic of Jesus, who is deistically treated as a simple man, but with all the amenity which the deists usually brought to bear on that theme.
Throughout, he is remarkable for the amenity of his tone towards "infidels.
The village girl showedamenity to the little traveler.
It is the foundation of friendly connexion which throws light on science, adds cheerfulness to life, and gives patience and amenity to the manners.
Campian, with amenity of manners and sweetness of elocution, with a taste imbued with literature, was adapted to win the affections of those whom Parsons sometimes terrified by his hardihood.
Yet they are all conducted with a degree of social amenity that to an American is as surprising as it is delightful.
Even if the increasing amenity of the human race did not abolish war, two other things would be certain to do so.
On the contrary, "the growing sentimentality of the age" steadily demands amenity of treatment for the fortunate offspring of the twentieth century.
