Baroness when Hortense had poured out her poem, of which the morning's adventure was the last canto, "dear little girl, Artlessnesswill always be the artfulest puss on earth!
In my artlessness I had thought that the church in which my mother found peace and consolation would elect none but chosen heroes among men as her servants and priests.
Now in my artlessness I had thought that anyone questioned by an earnest and not indifferent person, about a good acquaintance and dear friend, would manifest pleasure and gladly and heartily give the desired information.
But when at length she had grasped the mystery, the artlessness of her joy was charming.
The artlessness of Naomi increased day by day, and found constantly some new fashion of charming strangeness.
Many of the scenes are characterized by an artlessness and grace that recall Florian's les Deux Billets or Musset's A quoi rêvent les jeunes Filles.
In her artlessness Angélique concludes from his description that he means himself.
She had not meant to assume it, but these words expressed the charming artlessness which had formerly rendered her so irresistible, and the longer the duke had missed it, the less he was armed against the spell.
Now she is once more assuming the part of youthful artlessness to bewitch this Prince Emil.
Nay, she even accepted the inferior place with a coquettish artlessness which made her appear all the more youthful.
The naive artlessness of the Middle Ages," says Brandl, "became in the hands of the Romantic school, an intentional form of art.
The stiffness and awkwardness of their figure painting, their defects of drawing, perspective, and light and shade, their lack of anatomical science were like the lispings of childhood or the artlessness of an old ballad.
She was artlessness itself; her manners commanded universal respect; and her bearing alone repressed the impertinence of the libertine's gaze.
The very artlessness of her disposition made her sanguine;--and under these influences did she hasten along.
Never had the old woman beheld so fascinating a specimen of infantine artlessness and unsophisticated candour.
Perdita once more arranged her cap and the massive bands of her glossy hair: then, turning with a simulation of charming artlessness towards her companion, she addressed him in the following manner.
I am sure you will explain to my satisfaction,” interrupted the young lady, with a sincerity which emanated from the artlessness of a disposition entirely unsophisticated.
She knew nothing of love before the beautiful youth stood before her--her heart was as pure as an infant's--she was artlessness itself.
Yes, almost,--at least in the degree in which the artlessness of my vice and the candor of my depravity were consistent with consent.
Georges, his awkward and delicious caresses, the passionate artlessness of all his movements, and the wondering expression of his eyes in presence of the mystery, at last unveiled, of woman and of love!
Artlessness will never do in love matters; and that girl is born a simpleton who has it either by nature or affectation.
She had all the natural grace of sweetness of temper and artlessness in herself.
The artlessness of rural habits enabled him readily to make her acquaintance; he gradually won his way into her intimacy, and paid his court to her in that unthinking way in which young officers are too apt to trifle with rustic simplicity.
Because of their artlessness they are the perfection of art.
One could tell that nature was a scheme of decoration with her, and artlessnessan artistic device.
There is an artlessness in their manner of stuffing themselves, a frankness in their tippling, which defy competition; they sponge with more spirit than other men, and sit on with greater persistency.
But though this artlessness in him became too frequently in his imitators, like Thoreau and Ellery Channing, an obtruded simplicity, among his own poems are many that leave nothing to be desired in point of wording and of verse.
Haidee took the porcelain cup in her little slender fingers and conveyed it to her mouth with all the innocent artlessness of a child when eating or drinking something which it likes.
He proceeds to give a brief account of Jasmin's life, taken from the Souvenirs, which he regards as a beautiful work, written with much artlessness and simplicity.
It is indeed difficult to exaggerate the poetic instinct and the unaffected artlessness of this amiable bard.
Jasmin united the naive artlessness of poetry with the perfection of art.
He pronounced Jasmin to be a Gascon Beranger, and quoted several of his lines from the Charivari, but apologised for their translation into French, fearing that they might lose much of their rustic artlessness and soft harmony.
She looked fragile and lovely, her hair loosely waved with the artlessness of a child's, her grey eyes with their flecks of gold wide and clear, like the eyes of a beautiful Persian cat.
The artlessness of unadorned truth, however sure in theory of extorting administration, rarely, in practice, fails inflicting pain or mortification.
He reflected with fresh repugnance upon the gay and dissipated society with which she was newly mixing, and which, from her extreme openness and facility, might so easily, yet so fatally, sully the fair artlessness of her mind.
