elegancy

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We were prettily received and entertained here, and an elegancy ran through every thing, persons as well as furniture, yet all plain.

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

In elegancy of manners he has the advantage of all his predecessors, as is particularly remarkable in his address to Sir Giles Alington, his patron.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Cibber, Theophilus

Lord Bacon, in his essay "Of Gardens," says, "When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

The elegancy of which universum, though it cannot be rendered in our language; yet leaves an impression of the Wit on our souls.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

Here are only numbers ratified, but for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadency of poesy, caret.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia