sprightliness
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The Conversation of Benedick and Beatrice in Much ado about Nothing, and of Rosalind in As you like it, have much Wit and Sprightliness all along.
From Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) by Monk, Samuel Holt
Whoever had seen the Joy that was in Hippolito’s Countenance, and the Sprightliness with which he follow’d his Beautiful Conductress, would scarce have taken him for a Person griev’d with uncured Wounds.
From Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd by Congreve, William
It had better have strength and Sprightliness and Politeness than Nothing.
From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas
How do we in Thought open every Blossom of Sprightliness, or Humanity, or Piety, to its full Spread, and ripen it to a sudden Maturity!
From Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children Recommended and inforced, in a sermon preached at Northampton, on the death of a very amiable and hopeful child, about five years old by Doddridge, Philip
It should be therefore the Concern of every wise and virtuous Woman, to keep this Sprightliness from degenerating into Levity.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
