This Drolling has too much Spirit, the Air of it is too free, and too handsomly turn'd for Lord Foplingtons Character.
He disputes very handsomly by himself against irregular Love; The Discourse between him and Philto is instructive and well managed.
Danaus cautions his Daughters very handsomlyin point of Behaviour.
Tis handsomly contriv'd to slur the Notion of a Superiour Nature, to disarm the Terrors of Religion, and make the Court Above as Romantick as that of the Fairies.
They Guard and Fence when occasion requires, and step handsomlyover a dirty place.
Mr. Dryden discourses very handsomly on this occasion in his Preface to Albion and Albanius.
Let no man I say learn to relish any thing that's said there; For 'tis all but Poyson handsomly prepared.
Is the rule general, That Women can speak handsomly of none, But those they are bred withal?
Their Pans and Dishes are for the most part of Copper, but so handsomly Tinn'd over, that they look like Silver.
And that whole Passage is a Compliment very properly brought in, and very handsomly apply'd to her.
Compliment very handsomly turn'd to the Earl of Essex, shews the Play to have been written when that Lord was General for the Queen in Ireland: And his Elogy upon Q.
The received story of Milo, who by daily lifting a Calf, attained an ability to carry it being a Bull, is witty conceit, and handsomly sets forth the efficacy of Assuefaction.
A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomly illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Platoes denne, and are but Embryon Philosophers.
The Pavement also of the Cloister on the same Side was broken, and the Stones taken away, a Floor of Dust remaining: But that Side is now handsomly paved by the Beneficence of my worthy Friend William Burleigh, Esq.
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