On the aforementioned visit to Frankfurt he met Sophie Albrecht, a melancholy poetess who had sought relief from the tameness of her married life by going upon the stage.
European influences, had made a sudden transition from the powerful confusion of the middle age, to the regular tameness of modern times.
The New Comedy may, in certain respects, be described as the Old, tamed down; but in productions of genius, tameness is not generally considered a merit.
Tameness lies on this side of expression, grimace overleaps it; insipidity is the relative of folly, eccentricity of madness.
Would suchtameness and submission have freighted the May-Flower for Plymouth Rock?
Sometimes the tameness of her heroines shocked their author.
I found their tamenessas shocking as did Alexander Selkirk that of the brute subjects of his else solitary kingdom.
These are the animals which are called the tame reindeer, but their tameness only consists in the fact that they are kept in herds together, and watched by men and dogs.
Tameness is not the only good quality, whether of land or of human nature.
The extraordinarytameness of the little Opetiorhynchus has been remarked by Pernety, Lesson, and other voyagers.
These wolves are well known from Byron's account of their tameness and curiosity, which the sailors, who ran into the water to avoid them, mistook for fierceness.
This tameness may probably be accounted for, by the Jaguar having been banished for some years, and by the Gaucho not thinking it worth his while to hunt them.
This tameness of the birds, especially of the waterfowl, is strongly contrasted with the habits of the same species in Tierra del Fuego, where for ages past they have been persecuted by the wild inhabitants.
As the birds are so tame there, where foxes, hawks, and owls occur, we may infer that the absence of all rapacious animals at the Galapagos is not the cause of their tameness here.
I will conclude my description of the natural history of these islands by giving an account of the extreme tameness of the birds.
Indeed, "They were so unacquainted with man, Their tameness was shocking to me.
The inherited paces in the horse have no doubt been acquired by compulsion during the lives of the parents: and temper and tameness may be modified in a breed by the treatment which the individuals receive.
The tamenessof the birds in the Galapagos is described in the Journal of Researches (1860), p.
The visit of the squirrel was regarded as a treat by every one, and its tameness enabled us all to have a good look at it.
Since the shooting season closed I can't cross a field without scaring up a flock, and "their tameness is fearful to me.
While the various religious elements in Virgil's nature find ample scope in the representation of the Aeneid, his apathy in regard to active political life is seen in the tameness of his reproduction of that aspect of human affairs.
One of the few touches of nature which redeem his character from tameness is the momentary feeling of the rage of battle roused by the resistance of Lausus-- saevae iamque altius irae Dardanio surgunt ductori(640).
This is the main cause of the comparative tameness of the Aeneid in point of human interest.
The choice of his ministers was in many instances justly censured, and the dissatisfied people, with their usual candor, accused at once his indolent tameness and his excessive severity.
The choice of his ministers was in many instances justly censured, and the dissastified dissatisfied people, with their usual candor, accused at once his indolent tameness and his excessive severity.
In this problem of the mildness and tameness of the Harmsworth mind there is mirrored the outlines of a much larger problem which is akin to it.
Nor is it only from the point of view of particular amateurs of the sensational such as myself, that it is permissible to say, in the words of Cowper's Alexander Selkirk, that "their tameness is shocking to me.
I will conclude my description of the natural history of these islands, by giving an account of the extremetameness of the birds.
This tameness of the birds, especially of the water-fowl, is strongly contrasted with the habits of the same species in Tierra del Fuego, where for ages past they have been persecuted by the wild inhabitants.
As the birds are so tame there, where foxes, hawks, and owls occur, we may infer that the absence of all rapacious animals at the Galapagos, is not the cause of their tameness here.
Essingham Rectory, which the Erskine Hollands had taken for the month of August, was a little old building with some picturesque points to console one for the tameness of the view from its windows.
To my mind, tameness is something more than merely coming to be fed, and, in fact, many tame animals are least tame when they are feeding.
On the other hand, we must not take our idea of tameness merely from the domesticated animals.
The real quality of tameness is that the tame animal is not merely tolerant of the presence of man, not merely has learned to associate him with food, but takes some kind of pleasure in human company and shows some kind of affection.
When wild animals become tame, they are really extending or transferring to human beings the confidence and affection they naturally give their mothers, and this view will be found to explain more facts about tameness than any other.
The tameness and vulgarity of the transition dissipates at once the emotion we had shared with the Poet, and reduces him, in our opinion, to the level of a mere describer.
But what can Mr Alison mean by the charge of tameness and vulgarity?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tameness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gentleness; humility; mildness
