The commentator concludes his remarks on Maskat as follows: 'Maskat is of old a market for carriage of horses and dates; it is a very elegant town, with very fine houses.
And he, son of a parvenu, led the life of a rich, elegant idler.
They seemed to typify vice for vice's sake, elegant vice and pessimism as a principle.
At elegant dinners a little guillotine is brought in with the dessert and takes the place of a sweet dish.
Sometimes they come to blows, swords are drawn, and, the play over, elegant women are dragged through the gutters.
It was not at all disagreeable to her to give dinners in the sumptuous banqueting hall erected by the elegant Calonne, nor did the austere admirer of the ancients set the black broth of Sparta before her guests.
Thus some of their sovereigns, we are told, after the fatigues of the tournament, were wont to recreate their spirits with "elegant poetry, and florid discourses of amorous and knightly history.
The Italian cities, then rising into opulence, derived their principal skill in thiselegant manufacture from the Spanish Arabs.
In his elegant tastes, appetite for knowledge, and munificent patronage he may be compared with the best of the Medici.
The last and most elegant edition of Pulgar's Chronicle was published at Valencia in 1780, from the press of Benito Montfort, in large folio.
The impulse, given to Castilian poetry, extended to other departments of elegant literature.
The elegant dialect of the Koran is studied as a dead language, even in the birth-place of the prophet.
Antonio as an elegant commentary, worthy to be assiduously studied by all who would acquaint themselves with the history of their country.
But, after the nation had reposed from its tumultuous military career, the taste for elegant pleasures, which naturally results from opulence and leisure, began to flow in upon it.
They made great proficiency in mathematics, and particularly in astronomy; while, in the cultivation of elegant letters, they revived the ancient glories of the Hebrew muse.
For elegant tailoring he has no peer among orchestral chiefs, except, perhaps, Mr. Stokowski.
Delighted with his prospects he located in the "heart of elegant and artistic Paris," without regarding cost.
This mode of life was reflected in his music, which became more elegant and aristocratic.
Here we have the sweet, graceful, elegant and the very humorous and comical finale.
Elegant women showered caresses upon the child and the men were unanimous that such gifts deserved to be cultivated to the utmost without delay.
Then an accomplished cob and an elegant elephant take a turn together in more senses than one, for they dance vis-a-vis a waltz and a polka.
The chat is an elegant bird both in form and color.
They are the least attractive or elegant birds of our fields or forest.
Mr. Allison was a prosperous merchant, with a fine establishment in the city, and a very elegant country-seat a few miles out of it.
He was delighted with their cordial and elegant courtesy.
The oddest thing of all was, that the baroness wore on her little feet the most elegant silken shoes, and on her head the most charming lace cap, after the newest Parisian fashion.
In small crown 8vo, cloth extra, in an entirely new and elegant binding, price 1s.
These dogs are full of elegant ailments unknown to vulgar dogs; and are petted and nursed by Lady Lillycraft with the tenderest kindness.
She cannot be brought to think of the present king otherwise than as an elegant young man, rather wild, but who danced a minuet divinely; and before he came to the crown, would often mention him as the "sweet young prince.
Few people will disagree in their ideas of a handsome tree, or an elegant flower, though there be no fixed proportion between the trunk and the branches, the flower and the foot-stalk.
The most barren subject, under his elegant pen, becomes replete with beauties.
The grand andelegant columns of all these nations were connected by straight architraves of stone, of dimensions not inferior to the columns themselves.
The various uses, to which that elegant species of reed called the bamboo is applied, would require a volume to enumerate.
They have not the least notion of counter-point, or playing in parts: an invention indeed to which the elegant Greeks had not arrived, and which was unknown in Europe as well as Asia, until the monkish ages.
Having finished their elegant repast, the amusements of the day commenced on the ice.
But the two elegant carriages made by Hatchett puzzled the Chinese more than any of the other presents.
Hannah turned, and brought a slow venomous scrutiny to bear upon her niece--on the slim tall figure in the elegant Parisian dress, the daintily curled and frizzled head, the wild angry eyes.
There was nothing exclusive about this elegant hospitality.
In the first, a noble Roman and his wife have suddenly fallen asleep in their chairs in an elegant apartment.
It is inconceivable to us, who graduate men by a high-school standard, that these refined and most elegantworks could have been produced by a man so imperfectly educated as Claude Lorrain.
You cannot avoid a feeling of personal kindliness and respect for the refined and genial spirit who left this elegant legacy to an alien race and a hostile creed.
He knows there's no equipage more elegant than ours, and he is rejoicing to think that some people envy it.
According to the clowns and the supers, Malaga was squandering money; and she now appeared at the Circus wearing burnous and shawls and elegant scarfs.
He knows horses, and he manages to buy and sell at such advantage that my stable really costs very little; and yet I have the finest horses and the most elegant equipages in all Paris.
For a last graceful touch, all these elegant things were subdued by the half-light which filtered through embroidered curtains and added to their charm.
The American Traveller, though a more elegant writer, has still less claim to our indulgence, as his assertions are {xxiii} a greater tax on our credulity.
In page 21 of that elegant work, he classes the Moose with the We-was-kish, though it certainly has not any affinity to it.
A few minutes after making this elegant apostrophe, he expired in the greatest agonies that can possibly be conceived.
This bird may be ranked with the elegant part of the feathered creation, though it is by no means gay.
It has been said that the swans whistle or sing before their death, and I have read some elegant descriptions of it in some of the poets; but I have never heard any thing of the kind, though I have been at the deaths of several.
This elegant species has a white bill, and the legs and feet are of a fine yellow colour; the upper part of the plumage is brown, the breast and belly white, the former prettily blotched with black.
This sarcophagus stands in a round arched window niche, enclosed by an elegant railing, the upper part of which is occupied by net-like bronze interlacings, with artistically twisted knots.
This sacred poetry is very prolific, and though the frequent recurrence of the same motive is wearying, we are astonished at the endless wealth of the variations and the delicate expression of effect, elegant in its simplicity.
This was the Hermaphroditus, the licentious production of an otherwise learned andelegant author, Antonio Beccadelli, usually named, after his birthplace, Panormita.
Look at these elegant twining flowers, and that fine brooding eagle!
History of English Gardening, with his elegantlanguage and the flow of sentiment that pervades those pages, would make any search or review of mine presumptuous.
This elegant little work is merely a fragment, nay, even an unfinished fragment.
It was to this nobleman, that Addison addressed hiselegant and sublime epistle, after he had surveyed with the eyes and genius of a classical poet, the monuments and heroic deeds of ancient Rome.
What, therefore, can be a more elegant amusement, to a good and great man, than to inspect the beautiful product of fields and gardens, when every month hath its pleasing variety of plants and flowers.
He translated with such truth and spirit, the celebrated Essays of Montaigne, that he received from that superior critic, the Marquis of Halifax, a most elegant encomium.
Mr. Repton in his Enquiry into the Changes of Landscape Gardening, acknowledges "the elegant and gentleman-like manner in which Mr. Price has examined my opinions.
Or what elegant scholar but must wish to view the resemblance of the almost unknown Thomas Whately, Esq.
He first found himself in a thoroughly European quarter of the town, with houses ornamented with verandahs and elegant peristyles.
Passe-partout, who was close to his master, made a very expressive grimace when he gazed at his elegant but very thin slippers.
In one of these I was introduced to Miss Eliza Wharton--a young lady whose elegant person, accomplished mind, and polished manners have been much celebrated.
