There was no art in the telling, only a sweet naturalness and an apparent honestythe honesty of purpose that comes to people in lonely places.

He had frankly fallen in love, too: for Narcissus has told me that his great charm is a boyish naturalness of heart, that ingenuous gusto in living which is one of the sure witnesses to genius.

To Mathilde the brisk naturalness of her mother's manner was a source of comfort.

But he believedwhat was not very easy to believe beforehandthat he could win the sympathy of his countrymen, though not their agreement with him; and so, with characteristic naturalness and freshness, he wrote the Apologia.

With the almost childlike naturalness which is his greatest charm he confessed this sigh long after, and won that poet's heart.

And it is the ease, the refinement, the exquisite naturalness of Thackeray's style that furnishes a large part of our pleasure in reading him.

An extreme naturalness of pose and intonation, without over-stresses or affectations, characterised this agreeable study.

On the other hand, he has always been attracted by the finished naturalness of Thackeray.

And all she does without effort: rather with the flighty naturalness with which a bird takes to the wing.

" The artist spoke these words with his hands clasped and his fervid eyes upraised, like a man in an ecstasy; nor can our more prosaic English give an idea of the fluent naturalness and grace with which such images melt into that lovely tongue which seems made to be the natural language of poetry and enthusiasm.

She has been brought up in seclusion as complete as Miranda's on the enchanted island; and there is no resisting the charm of her impulsive naturalness.

There is little naturalness in the extravagant passion of the second story, but until sensationalism cloyed the public palate, realism was an unnecessary labor.

As she stood there in the modest naturalness of her winsome beautyinnocent and pure as the flowers that formed the screen behind her; hired to amuse the worthy friends and guests of that hideously repulsive devotee of lust and licentiousness who, from his wheeled chair, was glaring at her with eyes that burned insanelyshe seemed, as indeed she was, a spirit from another world.

And surely, this to have been the first thing of her olden sweet naturalness that she did say for a great while, and I to be so in delight, that I had her into mine arms, and kist her very loving, all in a moment, and she to submit with a nice gladness, and to nestle unto me, and all unwitting that she did be gone from her waywardness.

Half-educated writers are always mannerists; while, as the ancient canon says, "the perfection of art is to conceal art"to depart from uncultivated and therefore defective nature, to rise again through art to a more organised and therefore more simple naturalness.

Why walks no one by these guiding principles? "Where plain naturalness is more in evidence than polish, we havethe man from the country.

By far the greater part of this land must remain, always, in its primitive naturalness.

But she had tendered her gift with a spontaneous naturalness, an unaffected kindliness, and an innocent disregard of conventionalities, that would have disarmed a man with much less native gentleness than Aaron King.

" His sister, Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), the author of much religious verse, shows the unaffected naturalness of the new movement.

Her face,warmly tinted by the golden out-of-doors, firm fleshed and clear,in its unconscious naturalness and in its winsome purity was like the flowers she stooped to kiss.

The dramatic appeal of the stories will cause the child to lose himself in the character he is impersonating and read with a naturalness and expressiveness unknown to him before, and this improvement will be evident in all his oral reading, and even in his speech.

This absolute naturalness characterizes the whole story.

They would be ungrateful if they did not cherish the memory of a man who during his life-time was wont to prefer them, with all their imperfections upon their heads, to the keener and more enterprising North Germans, and who on many occasions sang the praises of their sociability, their wholesome naturalness, and their sound instinct.