lightsomeness

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As I have said, the key of the color-scheme has a direct emotional effect, so adding to the power and dignity or the grace and lightsomeness of the composition.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh

It vitalizes, warms, fuses, and imparts a lightsomeness to his verse; it creeps and kindles beneath the tissues of his thought.

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram

George went at his task with much too much lightsomeness of spirit and disrespect for the situation.

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark

There was a chatter of voices in the drawing-room, a chatter of a lightsomeness that Henson had never heard before.

From The Crimson Blind by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

Sheep ointment seems to daub the dead-hued sky,   And night shuts up the lightsomeness of day, All dark and absent as a corpse's eye.

From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by Clare, John