elegantia

Sontag and Belleville of Chopin's love of beauty of tone, elegance, and neatness, he cannot be surprised at the young pianist's estimate of the virtuoso of whom Riehl says: "The essence of his nature was what the philologists call elegantia ” he spoke the purest Ciceronian Latin on the piano."

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

Nazianzen of old, to Chilo his scholar, offerebant se mihi visendae mulieres, quarum praecellenti elegantia et decore spectabili tentabatur meae. integritas pudicitiae.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The severity of the ancient Romans gave an odious sense to the word “elegantia.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Agri Neapolitani delectatio, elegantia, amoenitas, vix intra modum humanum consistere videtur; unde, &c. Leand, Alber. in Campania.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Vestium splendore et elegantia ambitione incessus, donis, cantilenis, &c. gratiam adipisci.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

* [3132] Formæ elegantia in Rege laudatur, non quod per se decor oris magni æstimari debeat, sed quia in ipso vultu sæpe reluceat generosa indoles.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

* [6756] Formæ elegantia in Rege laudatur, non quod per se decor oris magni æstimari debeat, sed quia in ipso vultu sæpe reluceat generosa indoles.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

“Formæ elegantia in Rege laudatur, non quod per se decor oris magni æstimari debeat, sed quia in ipso vultu sæpe reluceat generosa indoles.” —

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

Non fuit elegantia illud aut cura, sed studiosa luxuria.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Latinè loquendi accurata, et, sine molestiâ, diligens elegantia; in disserendo mira explicatio; cum de jure civili, cum de æquo et bono disputaretur, argumentorum et similitudinum copia.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus