For the exquisiteness of a writer like Mr. Henry James he has the keenest insight, the warmest appreciation.
Betty, in seeing it, knew all the exquisiteness of her own pleasure, and all the meanings of it.
She was besought to consider the fitness of articles whose exquisiteness she was almost afraid to look at.
But Cowper's unites with an exquisiteness in the turn of thought which the ancients would have called Irony, an intensity of pathetic tenderness peculiar to his loving and ingenuous nature.
This poem has an exaltation and a glory, joined with an exquisiteness of expression, which place it in the highest rank amongst the many masterpieces of its illustrious Author.
The consequence was, in all his thoughts an exquisiteness and finish, a crystalline lustre, purity, and concentration; but it was the exquisiteness of a great nature.
And that would be a consequence of the help, all-too-great for hope of return, with any one less possessed than I with the exquisiteness of being transcended and the blest one.
But in this drawing now you have no representative of, nothing to hint at or recall the feeling of the exquisiteness of nature's finish.
Below him the sea lay bluer than you could believe even when you saw it--blue with a delicate yet deep silky blue, the exquisiteness of which was thrown up by the brilliant white lines of its lapping on the high coast, to the northward.
This is characterized by a richness of design that is most attractive, and the hangings are in keeping with the exquisiteness of the whole.
The different-shaded lights which dangled from its roof bestowed a look of Indian exquisiteness on the many quaint and delicate productions of nature that rested daintily in their beds of terra-cotta tint.
She had just arrived the day previous, and hastened to take up her abode as near her former home of exquisiteness as she could, without detection.
The consequence was, in all his thoughts an exquisiteness and finish, a crystalline lustre, purity and concentration; but it was theexquisiteness of a great nature.
It was his one link with the world of exquisiteness and new-burnished joys out of which he was being thrust; he would keep it if he could.
The first method is eminently suited to the expression of great thoughts in simple language, the second is more adapted to give pleasure, from the exquisiteness of the colours employed, and the skill with which the details are elaborated.
The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.
Hints 'obiter' are:-- not to permit delicacy and exquisiteness to seduce into effeminacy.
Sympathy andexquisiteness of touch are the characteristics of Mr. Hearn's genius.
If we are adequately to appreciate the exquisiteness of the earlier Japanese works, we will forget the "Japan, an Interpretation.
Proceeding forward, directly from the Obelisk, about 100 Paces, you come to a Magnificent Entrance, vastly large and lofty, and for the exquisiteness of the Workmanship not inferior to any thing before described.
Tis built of better Marble, and has an Air of Delicacy and Exquisiteness in the Work, beyond what is discernable in the Piazza.
No one has ever done anything equal to them in pure grace of movement—no one in exquisiteness of dainty design—I tremble now to ask you to draw in any other way.
Meantime I need not tell you that it would not be a satisfactory natural arrangement if moss grew on marble, and that all fine workmanship in marble implies equal exquisiteness of surface and edge.
I told you in my last lecture that the exquisiteness of Florentine thirteenth century masonry was founded on the strength and splendour of that which preceded it.
Exquisiteness of quality is its most attractive characteristic.
But for all the exquisiteness of Daisy Miller there were discernible in it certain black lines which, like the dark veining in a crocus that foretells its decay, showed that this was a loveliness which was in the very act of passing.
