Among his papers were also a few unpublished addresses and a few short and fragmentary poems, the effusions of his earlier years, all characterized by that elegance of style and fine poetic taste and feeling that marked their author.
In his hand it has lost nothing of its statuesque elegance and simplicity, and has gained immeasurably in moral dignity and feminine tenderness.
First, Lord Byron's "Myrrha," who with her Ionian eleganceis susceptible of the purest classical treatment.
I must confess I prefer the proud humility, the pathetic elegance of Homer's Helen, to such jugglery.
But about her slender, finely-proportioned figure there was an air of style and grace which lent an elegance even to her shabby and faded finery, and which was wanting in the owner of the fresher and more appropriate attire.
The room into which he was ushered by Christine, the pretty French maid, was a perfect marvel of elegance and extravagance.
He turned to greet her, and her beauty, enhanced as it was by the elegance of her attire, drew from him an involuntary glance of admiration.
Nay, I would ask, whether other ladies themselves, under a strong bias in favor of a tawdry dress, are not frequently lavishing encomiums on the superior elegance and convenience of the Friends' dresses?
Sublimity consists in grand and elevated ideas; and elegance iz most generally found in a plain, neet, chaste phraseology.
Remember that sublimity and elegance do not consist principally in words; az the modern stile of writing would make us beleev.
The goodness of a heart is of infinitely more consequence to society, than an elegance of manners; nor will any superficial accomplishments repair the want of principle in the mind.
At one time it seemed all stateliness, at another time elegance personified, and flowing voluptuousness at another.
The chin was rounded with marvellous elegance and shone like polished ivory.
It is a peculiarly formed city, being built on three parallel ridges of considerable elevation, and is remarkable for the general excellence and elegance of its architecture.
Here we have fine, cleanly streets, and stores almost Parisian in elegance and richness of display.
Only the theatre and the arch are left now; but the vanished elegance of it all is testified to by the fragments of carved walls and of mosaic pavements which still continue to be unearthed from time to time.
Elegance is replaced by a heavy grandeur; purity by strength.
This is a large inn; and if good fare depended upon the number and evenelegance of female cooks, the traveller ought to expect the very best at the Cheval Blanc.
That figure, whose elegance your eyes then feasted on, still floats before you; and the memory of the last talk with Laura is as vivid as if it were only yesterday that you listened.
You have met her on that last evening of your cloistered life in all the elegance of ball-costume; your eye has feasted on her elegant figure, and upon her eye sparkling with the consciousness of beauty.
The Preface is evidently written by Goldsmith, and with his usual elegance and spirit, and the selection which follows is one of the best which has ever yet been made.
She had a faculty for getting in Where elegance and riches were.
A contest in elegance was being fought between the Siceliot and the Italian.
He saw him in the setting that suited him best, the quiet eleganceof his home.
For this she would exchange the untidy and imitation elegance of her present setting.
She came like the answer to prayer, a little tired around the eyes, showing the strain of the past weeks, but with that same easy walk and unconscious elegance that marked her, always.
No man can judge of the superiority of England, whether in the beauty andelegance of its women, the cleanliness of its towns, the multiplicity and aptness of its comforts, but he who has wandered in other parts of the world.
We could hear children calling aloud, as soon as they caught sight of the yacht, decked out with all the elegance of her whitest ensign, and best Burgee "Engelskt!
A philosopher might have pitied Philoxene, while admiring the graceful lines of the bust and the minute care bestowed upon a morning dress, which was worn with the elegance of a queen and the easy grace of a young girl.
The carriage was drawn by four horses, ridden by postilions dressed with an elegance specially commanded by the grand equerry, who was often better served than the king himself.
I admired the elegance of the surgery, and the pleasantness of the gardens, which, however, are only a long and wide terrace.
Although Patty had dined once or twice before at "Red Chimneys," it had been with her parents at formal dinners, and they had been examples of the unrestrained elegance which Mr. Galbraith deemed the correct way of displaying his wealth.
With this, he was a perfect courtier; the extreme simplicity of his manner and address was accompanied by an elegance and a style of the most marked distinction.
The explanation was, indeed, of the briefest; and he returned in a few seconds, accompanied by a young lady, whose elegance of mien and loveliness of form seemed to astonish even the critical gaze of Richelieu.
You see at once how much more defence and safety were the guiding principles, than elegance of design and beauty of proportion.
The ornamentation of the back was done with the light spirit that distinguished early Jacobean styles from the preceding Italian models, yet without the elegance that appeared later in the century.
Inigo Jones was at work also, with his marvellous talent at classical architecture, setting a standard of cheerful elegance in design that lightened the Tudor magnificence.
Here the square construction of the chair is not altered from Tudor days, but note how every part has been lightened, until an elegance and beauty have been attained which make it worthy of the finest rooms of any time.
The elegance Charles I introduced into his time delights us now, and we thrill at the thought of owning any of the fine accessories with which he or his nobles surrounded themselves.
All that was austere came to the fore, and all that had the charm of gaiety and mirth, elegance and extravagance, was disapproved by those in power.
The quick assumption of elegance of the beggar on horseback is proverbial.
But propriety, purity, and elegance of style may be found among men of breeding and judgment, let them be born where they will; for their judgment is in the grammar of good language, though practice and example will go a great way.
True it is that the couplets of former knights have more of passion than elegance in them.
The foreign elegance of her dress and her enormous hat were outlined in their showy splendor against the dark mass of feminine toilettes.
The Little Cobbler dressed himself in suits of English cloth well fitted to the elegance of his figure, and his hat was always resplendent.
Mounted on her he trotted along the streets with no other object than to receive the homage of his friends, who greeted his elegance with noisy "Oles!
Slowly turning on his heels he drew near his servant who held one end of the belt, thus winding it around his body in regular curves, giving greater elegance to his waist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elegance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
