We must not forget too the vivacity indicated by the comic scenes among the Pompeian and Herculanean wall-paintings,[86] which have a close kinship with the Terentian MSS.
We wandered over the ruins, which are very extensive, and which Scott, with his usual vivacity and accuracy, has restored and repeopled.
It is the rival of Melrose, but more elaborate; in fact, it is a perfect cataract of architectural vivacity and ingenuity, as defiant of any rules of criticism and art as the leaf-embowered arcades and arches of our American forest cathedrals.
She has the sheen of the lily mingled with that of the rose, and her eyes exhibit a smiling vivacity which leaves our great coquettes of the day far behind!
The scene looked lively, but had not muchvivacity in it.
The Press complained 'that my speech was voted prosy, and that my want of vivacity tended to prevent the interruptions which had been organized, and that it would have been impossible to make an oration more mild and inoffensive.
Her vigor seemed inexhaustible, her vivacity was not a whit diminished, but, as she was led into the open space, her step became as light and free as when she started on her ride, and her sense of sound as quick as ever.
Educated abroad, she had all the vivacity of our livelier neighbors, combined with every solid qualification which we claim as more essentially our own.
The Sapphic metre he employs with a peculiar lightness and vivacity which harmonize admirably with his gayer moods.
Catullus, in his hendecasyllabics, had shown the vivacity with which that light and graceful metre could be employed in telling some short story or describing some trivial situation dramatically.
The men, as a general fact, are well made, with pleasing sprightly countenances, and possessing much grace and ease of manners, and vivacity of conversation.
On the one hand there is the sensuous and merely perceptive stimulation, the novelty, the movement, the vivacity of the spectacle.
Noise and vivacity is all that childish music contains, and primitive songs add little more of form than what is required to compose a few monotonous cadences.
She was sombre as a sunken fire until he at last came round to her, and then her sudden vivacity was surprising.
Therewith she pouted; or, to sketch her with precision, 'snouted' would better convey the vivacity of her ugly flash of features.
The vivacity of her intellect and the charms of her style give an interest to every thought and act.
The vivacity of some of these pensioners is little less than a miracle, they lived so long.
Vivacity and picturesquenees of the jongleur's verse.
Marked with vivacityof inception, apathy of progress, and prematureness of decay.
Beaming withvivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.
Liveliness of imagination; gayety of heart; animation of countenance; vivacity of gesture or conversation.
She had the vivacity which a healthy life secures.
He was the type of a meditative scholar and theologian, thin and worn, without much charm of conversation except to men of rank, or great animal vivacity such as delights the people.
Time had abated the vivacity of her resentment, and after its paroxysm was past, she was more disposed to weep over her afflictions, than to indulge herself in revenge.
In no other story has Mrs. Ward approached the brilliancy and vivacity of Lady Rose's Daughter.
Pan Stanislav's vivacity permitted him to become a child sometimes.
But I was chiefly struck with the vivacity and singularity of their turn of mind.
The vivacity of his regrets led him to practice every species of absurdity, which he called taking leave of me.
Raymond apologized profusely, and removed his thoroughly drenched elbow from the bowl with such vivacity that he rolled it onto the white trousers of a dandy who was reading the Journal des Modes.
I miss in your manner that light-heartedness and vivacity that I noticed at the time of our first meeting.
Such were her personal charms and the vivacity of her conversation and manners that she was the life and ornament of every circle graced by her presence.
She often entered into their juvenile games and amusements with all the vivacity of her nature.
Mary Preston Lewis is reported to have been a woman of great personal charms and of uncommon vivacity of intellect, and of varied accomplishments.
Do not permit the buoyancy and vivacity of youth to betray you into levity of manners.
Madam de Warrens wished to hear the particulars of my little history--all the vivacity I had lost during my servitude returned and assisted the recital.
She was a lively pleasing brunette, and the good nature that was painted on her lovely face rendered her vivacity more interesting.
That, however, did not restrain, but rather accelerated, my vivacity and inquisitiveness on the subject; for I wished to know whether it would produce any real effect upon him or not.
Her vivacity has certainly forsaken her; and she has actually become, what she once dreaded above all things, a recluse.
My natural vivacity had forsaken me, and I listened without interrupting him to the fluency of reproachful language which his resentment inspired.
And this vivacity gave a new beauty to her face; her eyes seemed more kind than ever; when she laughed, it was a sweet low laugh, like the cooing of pigeons on a summer afternoon.
He should now put plenty of vivacity into his own manner; he will then easily impart it to his pupil and her horse.
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