Elegance is a form of beauty.

The verse he quoted to Thomas Warton as his favourite, from the translation of Pope's Messiah, Vallis aromaticas fundit Saronica nubes, evinces that he could be pleased without elegance in a mode of composition, of which elegance is the chief recommendation.

The elegance with which a dinner is served is a matter which depends, of course, partly upon the means, but still more upon the taste of the master and mistress of the house.