"Graveness" Quotes from Famous Books
... very riband in the cap of youth, Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears Than settled age his sables and his weeds, Importing health and graveness.—Two months since, Here was a gentleman of Normandy,— I've seen myself, and serv'd against, the French, And they can well on horseback: but this gallant Had witchcraft in't: he grew unto his seat; And to such wondrous doing brought his horse, As had he been incorps'd and demi-natur'd With the ... — Hamlet, Prince of Denmark • William Shakespeare [Collins edition] |