An idiot she could not properly be termed, her mind being just enough enfeebled to lose most of those traits that are connected with the more artful qualities, and to retain its ingenuousness and love of truth.
Yes: I have something to say upon it, and I will proceed to the confession with the same ingenuousness with which I have made my former ones.
But his hostess stood face to face with him, and she saw that in his eye--lack of sincerity--which discounted the ingenuousness of his speech.
Was it that something of the old, frank, childlike ingenuousness seemed to have disappeared?
Iphigenia, on the point of being sacrificed, confesses with a touching ingenuousness that she grieves to part with the light of the sun.
Take Homer and the tragedians; suffering nature speaks the language of truth and ingenuousness in their pages, and in a way to penetrate to the depths of our hearts.
Being themselves of a truly good and humane nature, they forget that they have to do with a depraved world; and they act, even in the courts of kings, with an ingenuousness and an innocence that are only found in the world of pastoral idyls.
Simplicity is a childlike ingenuousness which is encountered when it is not expected; and it is for this very reason that, taking the word in its strictest sense, simplicity could not be attributed to childhood properly speaking.
I recollected the ingenuousness of her nature, the frankness of her manners, the partiality with which she had honoured me.
Mr. Collins was deeply affected with the apparent ingenuousness with which I expressed my feelings.
Mr. Falkland, however, slided in a graceful and unaffected manner into the conversation already begun; and the animated ingenuousness of his manner was such, as might for the time have disarmed the devil of his malice.
She suspected that it was now his ingenuousness that idealised Helen's tolerant kindness.
She felt, as he piloted her to the Customs, that either his tact or his ingenuousness was sublime.
I can hardly believe it," he added with the usual ingenuousness of all vain people.
He was glad to see her pleasure, and the ingenuousness of her conversation amused and touched him.
In his ingenuousness he doubted her story as little as he doubted what he read in books, and he was angry that such wonderful things never happened to him.
We sympathise by turns with the guilty alarms of Agrippina, the virtuous consternation of Burrhus, the virgin modesty of Junia, the unsuspecting ingenuousness of Britannicus.
Their spirits were often broken down and their ingenuousness destroyed by the former; their habits of self-will and sensuality confirmed by the latter.
It is with regret we are compelled to confess some want of ingenuousness in this part of Taylor’s proceedings.
His ingenuousness is the thing that staggers me: yet is he cunning enough to know, that whoever accuses him first, blunts the edge of an adversary's accusation.
Thou wilt have ingenuousness enough, I dare say, were there occasion for it, to subscribe to my opinion.
But ingenuousness was ever a signal part of my character.
Ingenuousness combining itself with remarkable alertness of perception on occasion, is rather American than English, and is, therefore, to the English mind, misleading.
As a matter of fact, men of rare talent, like Goethe and Wagner, much more often attain to ingenuousness in manhood than during the more tender years of childhood and youth.
With much ingenuousness she told us how Madame, whom she greatly respected, had looked after two old "boarders," who no longer had any clients.
These two examples of ingenuousness are sufficiently characteristic of the morality of the system.
Even if she have some faults, with the love for which my brother pines, the ingenuousness unsullied by the most trifling artifice, her very faults would bind her more closely to him.
Faults he could pardon, if they were redeemed by affection, and ingenuousness unsullied by the slightest artifice.
Still, for the exhibition of these qualities he would have been, as he always was with all men, perfectly prepared, but not for the ingenuousness with which he was now confronted.
There was an irresistible ingenuousness in Kingsley's voice and manner, and Mr. Loveday led the way to the caravan.
I was at that time in great need, and in my ingenuousness even begged Nijinsky to make his own participation in the performances depend upon my engagement.
With unreflecting ingenuousness he tasted the joy as if it were his right.
Hardly,' was Buckland's reply, spoken with less ingenuousness of tone than usual.
His hopelessly masculine ingenuousness is displayed in a touching way by his care to procure some woman to attend on Flora.
For those who refuse to believe in chance he, I mean Mr Powell, must have been obviously predestined to add his native ingenuousness to the sum of all the others carried by the honest ship Ferndale.
Sincerity had least place of all the virtues in his breast; and his hypocrisy, somewhat hidden by the apparent ingenuousness and conciliatory address of his manner, became manifest in actions and votes, rather than in words.
It was her artlessness, her sweet ingenuousness that broke Rufus down.
She had talked about him with a simple ingenuousness that had delighted the baronet's heart.
We might wish that Voltaire had the mildness of Duclos, the ingenuousness of the Abbé Trublet, the rectitude of the Abbé d'Olivet.
Nothing is less like the ingenuousness of his character and ordinary life, than the artificial and premeditated simplicity of his works.
The history of her dancing at the ball, and the situation of her partner and brother, the Duke of Clarence, she spoke of with a sweet ingenuousness and artless openness which makes her very amiable character.
