An early acquaintance with the Classics is what may be called the Good Breeding of Poetry, as it gives a certain gracefulness which never forsakes a mind that contracted it in youth; but is seldom, or never, hit by those who would learn it too late.

They will observe, that it is not always sufficient to do right, and that it is often necessary to add gracefulness to virtue.

the long ornamental quills of the pinionsall look exactly as if they were deliberately intended to emphasize and heighten the natural gracefulness of the heron's form.

There was about her form and motion an indefinable gracefulness that was like the charm of this hazy, undulant, moonlit prairie, and this blue sky seen through the lace of thin, milk-white clouds.

His person was so well formed, and he possessed so much natural gracefulness, that notwithstanding the disadvantage of his appearance, he was called, by the Ladies, the Handsome Sloven.

Alfred examined the reclining Cupid, and praised the gracefulness of its outline.

The capitals of the columns want the gracefulness of the Corinthian, and the volutes are but

Nothing can exceed the gracefulness of its pinnate foliage, hanging loosely from its equally divergent spray, easy of motion, but not fluttering, and always harmonizing in its tints with the season of the year.