"Superfineness" Quotes from Famous Books
... and charming humor. This latter gift shows in the seeming lapses from his rigid rule requiring absolute elegance of expression at all times, when an unexpected coarseness, in some provincial colloquialism, crops out with picturesque force. The beau ideal of superfineness occasionally enjoys the bliss of harking back to ... — The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield |