10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPRIGHTFULNESS»
Discover the use of
sprightfulness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sprightfulness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
State-worthies: or, The statesmen and favourites of England ...
Indeed the politick observator faith ; 'That women ^ysrsj of all creatures are the
most dextrous in contriving their designs, their natural sprightfulness of
imagination, attended with their leisure, furnishing them with a thousand
Expedients, and ...
David Lloyd, Sir Charles Whitworth, 1766
2
The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus ...
... and said, with a kind of sprightfulness and vivacity, that whatever he had
written of this faith in his life, he was now ready to seal with his death. Being
questioned in point of charity, he answered presently, that he forgave all men that
offended ...
3
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To ...
... and his language and expression natural, sharp, and flowing, adorned with a
wonderful seeming modesty, and with such a constant and perpetual
sprightfulness and pleasantness of humour, that no man had reason to be
ashamed of being ...
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon, 1827
4
Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical
Nathan Drake. showers, and sets quickly: so is a man's reason and his life.” " “ It
is a mighty change that is made by the death of every person, and it is visible to
us who are alive. Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth, the fair cheeks and
...
5
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Curiously enough, after losing its tail by accident, the Kokako moped and hardly
uttered a sound, as if ashamed of the sorry condition it presented ; and as the
new tail began to show itself the bird regained its wonted sprightfulness.
6
A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically ...
Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth and the fair cheeks and full eyes of
childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-
twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of
a ...
Charles Dexter Cleveland, 1872
7
Daily lessons on the life of our Lord on earth, in the words ...
... but let him depart in peace ; to the privacy which is most healthful for soul and
body, to the society of those sisters who best might minister unto him.3 But think
of that hideous change " from the sprightfulness of youth ... to the loathsomeness
...
George James Cowley- Brown, 1880
8
Poems and Prose Writing
I was about wishing them the New- Year's blessing ; but the memory of the
heartfelt sprightfulness of old times came across my mind, and brought along with
it those that were at rest in the grave. I gave a loud " Hem ! " (for my throat was full
,) ...
9
The Medical Fortnightly
It is called by the people by its different synonyms of jolly, merry, joyful, jocular,
gleeful, sprightfulness, cheerfulness and liveliness, or it is sometimes referred to
in unspoken language a; ha! ha! ha! But we must be serious, as we promised
proof ...
... and, without violence and noise climbing up the hill, hath made night so to
retire, that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightfulness of the morning : and
Christianity, without violence or armies. . . . with obedience and charity, with
praying ...
William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, 1871
