And this may suffise to shew the vse and nature of your cadences, which are in effect all the sweetnesse and cunning in our vulgar Poesie.
He was almost as tall and as big as his father: he had something[859] of the sweetnesse of his mother's face.
Hath left the world, now the loud organ may 60 Appeare, the better voyce is fled to have A thousand times the sweetnesse which it gave.
Hope not for minde in women; at their best Sweetnesse and wit, they'are but Mummy, possest.
And betweene us all sweetnesse may be had; All, all that Nature yields, or Art can adde.
Ah, infortunate Alerane, there is no floure that ought to be so handled, nor sauor, the sweetnesse whereof ought not to bee sented without desert merited before.
They bereued and toke awaye from vs the fathers a newe kinde of authoritie, which was neuer sene before, who now feeling the sweetnesse thereof, will neuer geue it ouer.
That with his melting sweetnesse rauished, 8 And with the wonder of her beames bright, My senses lulled are in slomber of delight.
She is as faire as Nature intended her, helpt perhaps to a more pleasing grace by the sweetnesse of education, not by the flight of Art.
For musiqu's in the breath Of thunder, and a sweetnesse even ith' death That brings with it, if you with this compare All the loude noyses, which torment the ayre.
All Hybla's honey, all that sweetnesse can, Flowes in Thy song, O faire, O dying Swan!
From Sweetnesse to Candelox by the way of Versega (which measureth the breadth of that countrey) is 90.
Doubtless neither starre nor flower Hath the power Such a sweetnesseto impart: Only God, Who gives perfumes, Flesh assumes, And with it perfumed my heart.
Herbert, The Banquet:-- "O what sweetnesse from the bowl Fills my soul!
Well does the May that lyes 85 Smiling in thy cheeks, confesse The April in thine eyes; Mutuall sweetnesse they expresse.
Nowhere but here did ever meet Sweetnesse so sad, sadnesse so sweet.
Following those little rills, he sinkes into A sea of Helicon; his hand does goe Those pathes of sweetnesse which with nectar drop, 125 Softer than that which pants in Hebe's cup.
But I see now that thou art charged with the weighte of the questioun, and wery with the lengthe of my 255 resoun; and that thou abydest som sweetnesse of songe.
For how might ever sweetnesse have be knowe To him that never tasted bitternesse?
Our sheepe are verie excellent, sith for sweetnesse of flesh they passe all other.
As touching the shellie sort, we haue plentie of oisters, whose valure in old time for their sweetnesse was not vnknowne in Rome (although Mutianus as Plinie noteth lib.
Europe, both for greatnesse of bodie and sweetnesse of flesh: or else would not the Romane writers haue preferred them before those of Liguria.
Oh to thy sweetnesse Envy would prove kind, Tormentor humble, no pale Murderer; And the Page of death a smiling Courtier.
Therefore, I give my advice unto those that love such strange and new-fangled meates, to beware of licking honey among thornes, least the sweetnesse of the one do not countervaile the sharpnesse and pricking of the other.
Of Garlands, Anadems, and Wreathes, This Nimphall nought but sweetnesse breathes, Presents you with delicious Posies, And with powerfull Simples closes.
O that the sweets of all the Flowers that grow, The labouring ayre would gather into one, In Gardens, Fields, nor Meadowes leauing none, And all their Sweetnesse vpon thee would throw.
The curious choyce, Clove Iuly-flower, Whose kinds hight the Carnation For sweetnesse of most soueraine power Shall helpe my Wreath to fashion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sweetnesse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
