The poem, which is in the Northern dialect, and is marked throughout by a charming naïveté, commences with a eulogium of the Virgin: 'La douce mère du Créateur À l'église à

You see," with a certain childish naïveté, "she hasn't seen you yet.

A peculiar, childlike naïveté accompanied his intelligence, trained to run in certain grooves, which is the product of the German type of popular education; that trust in his superiors which comes from a diligent and efficient paternalism.

With amusing naïveté he reveals his ideas on the subject in a passage (11) which he quotes approvingly from H.E.A. Meyer to the effect that if a young bride pleases her husband, "he shows his affection by frequently rubbing her with grease to improve her personal appearance, and with the idea that it will make her grow rapidly and become fat.

"You couldn't have done it better if you'd done it on purpose, could you?" "Done what?" asked Morse, with bland naïveté.

Bachelors who refused to marry were not allowed to attend these dances, which, as Plutarch adds with characteristic Greek naïveté, were "a strong incentive to marriage."

Professor Murray, who cites this line in his History of Greek Literature, remarks with comic naïveté: "The love-note in this pure and happy sense Euripides had never struck before."

This simple, and altogether typical representation of the Virgin crowned by the Trinity in human form, is in a French carving of the fifteenth century, and though ill drawn, there is considerable naïveté in the treatment.

Yet it is all mixed up with extraordinary naïveté.

To amuse the reader, on the other hand, Spinoza's definition deserves to be quoted because of its exuberant naïveté: Amor est titillatio, concomitante idea causae externae (Eth.

It is difficult to understand how anyone could have ever been deceived so far as to overlook the sophistical character of this pastoral romance of Longus, or could have discovered genuine naïveté in this most artificial of all rhetorical productions.

The delight and exultation of those who minister to the new-born infant are expressed with the most graceful naïveté.

These called out greetings to each other, and exchanged dolorous mutual condolences on their hard fate; all showing, with a helpless masculine naïveté, their consciousness of the lovely, observant figure in the carriage below them.

On the morrow the girl pleads with her father to make peace, with humorous naïveté argues with the counsellors of state, tries to bribe the seers, and finally resorts to magic.

The misty veil woven of credulity and infantile naïveté which had hung over men’s souls and protected them from understanding either themselves or their relation to the world began to lift.

To see the sweet, invincible American naïveté welling up in their intense satisfaction in being so sophisticated,oh, the harmless dears!"

It is this book which Heine had in mind when he ridiculed Tieck's "silly plunge into medieval naïveté."

certain Members, with monumental naïveté, have thought fit to take their correspondence seriously.

Her reference to "The Song" in her letter has a sort of pathetic naïveté in it; it shows that the thought with which she was concerned was practical, not poetical,not her husband's fame, but her household cares.

A passage in The Poor Musician gives eloquent expression to Grillparzer's regard for the sure esthetic instinct of the masses and, indirectly, to his own poetic naïveté.

" Sylvia was immensely disconcerted by her rustic naïveté in not thinking of this obvious device.

To see the sweet, invincible American naïveté welling up in their intense satisfaction in being so sophisticated,oh, the harmless dears!"

And it is because the will is most striking in the lower class of animals that we may account for our delight in dogs, apes, cats, etc.; it is the absolute naïveté of all their expressions which charms us so much.

Only a poet of the unprecedented naïveté of Grillparzer could so completely obliterate the insurgency of moral scruples against this establishment of the absolute monarchy of love.

The absurd naïveté of Sancho Panza is represented in such inimitable colours by Cervantes, that it entertains as much as the picture of the most magnanimous hero or softest lover.