It was an effort to laugh merrily, but only the ghost of the old instinctive blitheness rippled into it.
Lescott felt as though he had struck her; as though he had ruthlessly blighted the irresponsible joyousness which had a few minutes before sung from her lips with the blitheness of a mocking- bird.
The blitheness of the antique spirit is tempered by the sadness of the modern mind.
There lives in them something of the Olympian blitheness of the ancients, of that easy joyousness which since Tiepolo seemed to have been buried in melancholy reflection and constrained brooding.
Certainly of Greek blithenessand directness there was no trace.
Ovid and his daughter were singularly alike in a certain blithenessof demeanour, and in Fabia's eyes they made a charming picture now, both of them in festal white against the March green of the slender poplars.
She had not only loved, with all the pure passion of her maturity, his charm and his blitheness and his gifted sensitiveness, but she had been proud of his achievements.
Even in the worship of sorrow the nativeblitheness of art asserted itself; the religious spirit, as Hegel says, "smiled through its tears.
For him the problem came to be:--Can the blitheness and universality of the antique ideal be communicated to artistic productions, which shall contain the fulness of the experience of the modern world?
Breadth, centrality, withblitheness and repose, are the marks of Hellenic culture.
In the very "worship of sorrow" the native blitheness of art asserted itself.
There is even in Dalou's fantasticality of this sort a measure and distinction which temper animation into resemblance to such delicate blitheness as is illustrated by the Bargello "Bacchus" of Jacopo Sansovino.
Their poets never describe, but only endeavour to express a spiritual feeling, to hold a memory fast--the blitheness of smiling pleasure, the mournfulness of vanished joy.
A laughing spring landscape, filled with the blitheness of May, spreads beneath the bright sky of the Isle de France.
