He imagined that he had now purchased the privilege of discourse, and began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustick understandings.
Of its chastity, in the vulgar sense, there need be little dispute, despite the scandal of the elopement of the dish with the spoon, which would seem as free from grossness as the loves of the triangles.
Left scathless by the clumsy grossness of Shadwell's attack, Dryden retorted murderously with MacFlecknoe.
In spite of the society, the question of swearing and its prevalent grossness seems to have attracted the attention of the civil courts of law at this time.
So far as they could help themselves, these shameless dramatists left no word unsaid that could increase the strife of tongues and raise a smile at the energy or possibly the grossness of the jargon.
Behind his impudent servility, behind the devotion which, with indelicate delicacy, he still forced on her attention, she divined the grossness of his nature.
He had an air of massive jollity that well became him; grossness and geniality sat upon his features; and along with his manners, he had laid aside his sly and sinister expression.
There is too much pain attendant upon grossnessto justify the boast of ease; and too much effort in asceticism to admit of the grace of simplicity.
Under ascetic forms, what grossness there is will be partially concealed; but there will be no nearer an approach to simplicity than under the licentious.
Yet I trust that the health of the general body will be improved by it, and purged of the grossness and worldly feeling which have hitherto, I fear, too much characterized it.
Our grossness shall be purged away, and the proud spirit of mammon burned out of us.
But this was a tame mummery, compared with the grossness elsewhere allowed in burlesquing religious ceremonies.
The beauties of this poem are well known; its chief fault is the grossness of its images.
He had been entertained by Pope at his table, where he talked with so much grossness that Mrs. Pope was driven from the room.
Whatever acts are done by the mind with full deliberation, produce, according to their grossness or subtility, fruits that are gross or subtile.
On great wholesome minds the grossness left no stain, and the interest of Diderot's singularities worked as a stimulus to a happier originality in men of more disciplined endowments.
The lurking selfishness of Apemantus does not pass undetected amidst the grossness of his sarcasms and his contempt for the pretensions of others.
The passion for wealth has worn out much of its grossness in tract of time.
How wretched is the position she has put herself in; for if the man she married be naturally a low man, he will probably drag her to his level by the "grossness of his nature.
It is fitting that in an age of moral refinement, youthful readers should at least be made aware that the wit that is praised is combined with obscenity or grossness that can not be too emphatically condemned.
In the present life one man's thought is not known by another owing to a twofold hindrance; namely, on account of the grossness of the body, and because the will shuts up its secrets.
His Discourses upon Livius are full of sense, penetration, and profundity; his light works show a singular dexterity of thought united to a fundamental grossness which it would be impossible to misunderstand or excuse.
All Spanish dramatists were unequal, he more especially; he passed from grossness to sublimity with surprising facility and ease.
Weigh it but with the grossness of this age, You break not sanctuary in seizing him.
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee; And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep, And sing, while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep; And I will purge thy mortal grossnessso That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.
In Egyptian eyes their union was regarded as a marriage, and the relations of these two never assumed the grossness and voluptuousness that were later exhibited by Antony and Cleopatra.
We wound up the morning, which was beautiful, by taking a ride, in the course of which I was amused with an instance of the sensitiveness with which Harrington's cultivated mind recoiled from the grossness of vulgar and ignorant infidelity.
Not content with this, he is supposed to have incited Gay to write the Shepherd's Week, to show, that if it be necessary to copy nature with minuteness, rural life must be exhibited such as grossness and ignorance have made it.
He wishes to show the grossnessof men's passions, as before he has shown their pettiness.
Swift accordingly varies the scale, so as to show the insignificance or the grossness of our self-love.
The capaciously strong in soul among women will ultimately detect an infinite grossness in the demand for purity infinite, spotless bloom.
She it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us.
Let us not make any mistake concerning these; they are exceptions to the rule; the appearance of health in them is but the grossness of sensuality.
They who unitedly move themselves away from grossness and from earth, toward the throne of crystaline and the pavement golden, are, indeed, true lovers.
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