subtilty

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Deliver me from the combined strength of those, who have so much of the Serpents subtilty, that they forget the Doves Innocency.

From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by Charles I, King of England

Lowell's best prose—in "Fireside Travels," for example—has similar qualities, and adds to them a surprising delicacy of wit and subtilty of phrase, while it has less movement and less of rhythmical emphasis.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various

For ought not true art to work upon us like a higher Nature, without putting forth much ingenuity and subtilty, without all that complication of poetical affinities and philosophical finesse?

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul

Isaac trembled and said: Thy brother has come with subtilty, and taken away thy blessing.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

His facile execution and singular subtilty of fancy were, we hoped, destined to enrich these pages for many a year.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham