She was indeed a most elegant caligrapher, whom Roger Ascham[107] had taught all the elegancies of the pen.
Amidst these rural elegancies which Shenstone was raising about him, his muse has pathetically sung his melancholy feelings-- But did the Muses haunt his cell, Or in his dome did Venus dwell?
Neither Fleda nor her grandfather cared a jot for the want of elegancies which one despised, and the other if she had ever known had well nigh forgotten.
In architecture her conceptions were grand, while in all matters pertaining to the arts, and to the comforts and elegancies of life, she was unsurpassed.
In architecture her conceptions were grand; while in all matters pertaining to the Arts, and to comforts and elegancies of life, she was unsurpassed.
The remainder of the ground is divided into woods, lawns, gardens, and all the other elegancies of grounds around the house, the site of which is also included in it.
There were no elegancies at their table--that too was borne in upon her along with the other disturbing things.
It was a revelation to Rose of the elegancies of a dainty, finicky girl's toilet.
The following trifles are not the production of the Poet, who, with all the advantages of learned art, and perhaps amid the elegancies and idlenesses of upper life, looks down for a rural theme with an eye to Theocritus or Virgil.
Perhaps it was not fair to expect him to feel how very much he was her inferior in talent, and all the elegancies of mind.
Dryden is always "another and the same;" he does not exhibit a second time the same elegancies in the same form, nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing with clearness what he thinks with vigour.
The elegancies of life were necessities to her; but those elegancies would cost--to put it tangibly-- the balance of profit accruing from the continuous labour of at least fifty average industrious women.
Nor is it any more necessary that the social aristocrat-- ostentatiously useless, as he generally is--should hold virtual monopoly of the elegancies of life.
And when the industrious women were not to the fore, where were the elegancies to come from?
It was lavishly furnished not only with material elegancies but with a library embracing more than a thousand volumes.
The same laudable sentiment that induces display of the elegancies of life, causes concealment of our miseries, or humiliating misfortunes.
The owner is seldom here, as is apparent by the furniture, which, though fresh and suitable, does not extend to the thousand little elegancies that accumulate in a regular abode.
Our Language has received innumerable Elegancies and Improvements, from that Infusion of Hebraisms, which are derived to it out of the Poetical Passages in Holy Writ.
The little elegancies and adornments of her house were those that are furnished by thought and care rather than by money.
He never attempted those lesser elegancies and graces in the art.
The little elegancies of art in the presence of these great ideas thus greatly expressed, lose all their value, and are, for the instant, at least, felt to be unworthy of our notice.
There can, therefore, be little leisure for intellectual pursuits, or means of acquiring the comforts or elegancies of life.
The conversations, even among the women, frequently turn upon the elegancies and minutest delicacies of the French language.
Bouret furnished the house with all the elegancies of Parisian homes for an Opera celebrity; and to him Les Aigues owes the restoration of its ground floor in the style Louis XV.
Les Aigues thus received the last touch which made it a choice example of all the diverseelegancies of four centuries.
Still the desire of exemption from bodily toil, and of enjoying a portion of the conveniences and elegancies of life, is natural, and has a salutary effect in stimulating to activity and invention.
But they have no means to recruit their exhausted purse, or secure any supply of the comforts andelegancies to which they had been accustomed.
Connected with this want is the impossibility of procuring many of the elegancies and luxuries of life, portions of which have, by the middling classes, come to be viewed in the light of necessaries.
Moreover, in Macon are many very fine residences, and the city may boast of its gentility and its respect for the nourishing elegancies of life; but a dozen miles out are large neighborhoods not yet half-civilized.
Her wardrobe all gossamer lace and quaint frill and crimp and embroidery, her house a museum of elegant and costly gewgaws; and amid the whole collection of elegancies and fragilities, she, perhaps, the frailest.
Our women's wardrobes are made elaborate with the thousand eleganciesof French toilet,--our houses filled with a thousand knick-knacks of which our plain ancestors never dreamed.
