The Anacreontic lines, and some other light pieces of Cowley, have a spirit and raciness very unlike these frigid conceits; and in the ode on the death of his friend Mr. Harvey, he gave some proofs of real sensibility and poetic grace.
The scholarly part of Carlyle's work is nearly always thrown in the shade by the manly part, the original raciness and personal intensity of the writer.
The climate is a kind of prolonged May, and a vernal lustiness and raciness are characteristic of all the prevailing forms.
Its power was simply tremendous, well tempered with the Scotch raciness and tenderness, too.
Matched with the best Florentine dialogues, his language wants the raciness of the vernacular.
If there is less of naturalraciness than came unsummoned to Boccaccio's aid, there is more of Virgil and Theocritus than he chose to appropriate.
He sees Greek art as being authentically marked by the "rich raciness of the native soil.
Facility and fecundity may produce inequality, but, when a man of genius works, they are imbued with a raciness which the anxious diligence of inferior minds can never yield.
It is only that character which bears the raciness of the soil; it is only that impulse whose solitary force stamps the authentic work of genius.
Every day we may observe, of a work of genius, that those parts which have all the raciness of the soil, and as such are most liked by its admirers, are those which are the most criticised.
The man of genius is now trammelled with the artificial and mechanical forms of life; and in too close an intercourse with society, the loneliness and raciness of thinking is modified away in its seductive conventions.
The English poet might have lost his raciness by a cold imitation of the Latin masters; among the Italians, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, Chaucer found only models to emulate or to surpass.
All native vigour died away in the coldness of imitation; and a similarity of thinking and of style deprived the writers of that raciness which the nations of Europe subsequently displayed when they cultivated their vernacular literature.
But the Italians, and especially the Tuscans, delight in the raciness of Pulci’s Florentine idiom, which we cannot equally relish.
No one of the European nations stands so high in this respect as the German; their ancient tales have a raciness and truth which has been only imitated by others.
Some of these, which are collected in a volume printed in 1558, are by Lorenzo, and display a union of classical grace and imitation with the native raciness of Florentine gaiety.
Now and then the rascally Seldwylians played a trick on the two deadly enemies which for its peculiarraciness was specially relished by them, the people of Seldwyla, that is.
A constant friction with society, while it smoothes down asperities and polishes manners, is apt to impair if not destroy much of the originality and raciness peculiar to clever people.
He was much amused with the raciness and originality of her remarks; and she was greatly gratified by the polite attention with which he listened to them.
The theological and scientific speculations of the age are transmitted to us in his comic stanzas with a vernacular racinessthat renders them doubly precious.
The raciness of its obsolete street-slang would evaporate, and the fiber of the piece is not strong enough to bear rude handling.
The Shoemaker's Holiday is principally distinguished by the directness and raciness of its citizen sketches.
The impropriety and looseness of the language were not compensated by the raciness and vigor of the vulgar tongue.
It is their raciness of the soil that gives such zest to, and has procured such immense popularity for the German classics.
