bashfulness

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.—Aristotle.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis

So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry; So sweet the blush of Bashfulness, Even Pity scarce can wish it less!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Bashfulness," repeated Miss Larolles; "Lord, you don't conceive the thing at all.

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny

When they are thus mixed and blended together, they compose what we endeavour to express when we say a modest Assurance; by which we understand the just Mean between Bashfulness and Impudence.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

His Aspect is sweetened with Humanity and Benevolence, and at the same Time enboldned with Resolution, equally free from a diffident Bashfulness and an unbecoming Assurance.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.