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The greatest amusement perhaps was to recognise the pretty sentiment of earliness, the particular congruity with the hour, in the studied, selected dress of the little tripping women who were taking the day, for important advantages, while it was tender.
The true poet sees things not always as they are, but as they ought to be. He insists upon congruity and consistency. Such a life should be in such a spot, under such circumstances; and no unwarped and unpolluted mind can fail to see that the poet's ideal is the embodiment of God's will.
Hence it perhaps arose that Giles and all his belongings seemed sorry and common to her for the moment moving in a plane so far removed from her own of late that she could scarcely believe she had ever found congruity therein. "No I could never have married him!" she said, gently shaking her head. "Dear father was right. It would have been too coarse a life for me."
All around was dense forest, wild and beautiful as nature made it. How well the scene and the worship accorded! There was congruity in all the woods, the tents, the people, and the worship. The impressions made that day upon my young mind were renewed at many a camp-meeting in after years; and so indelibly impressed as only to pass away with existence.
Magnificent, noble, and sublime words are to be estimated by their congruity with the subject; for what is magnificent in one place, swells into bombast in another; and what is low in a grand matter, may be proper in a humble situation.
Garnishing of utterance Fenner does not discuss at all. In The Arcadian Rhetorike , Abraham Fraunce treats both. "Rhetorike," he says, "is an Art of Speaking. It hath two parts, Eloqution and Pronuntiation. Eloqution is the first part of Rhetorike, concerning the ordering and trimming of speech. It hath two parts, Congruity and Braverie."
I can't explain it. How can one ever explain those things? 'What makes you want to marry her? What possible congruity is there between her and you? He laughed uneasily. 'What's the good of asking those things? One's feeling itself is the answer. 'But I'm the spectator the friend. The word came out slowly, with a strange emphasis. 'I want to know what Lucy's chances are. 'Chances of what?
Not that the rich gown is in itself objectionable, or the inexpensive dress intrinsically beautiful. It is not invariably true that "beauty unadorned is most adorned." It is not true that a "simple calico" is more charming than a sheeny silk, nor is cotton edging to be compared with point or duchess lace. But the really beautiful in dress, as before stated, lies in its perfect congruity.
Garbett does not understand or acknowledge this, he is led on from error to error; for we next find him endeavoring to define beauty as distinct from ornament, and saying that "Positive beauty may be produced by a studious collation of whatever will display design, order, and congruity."
She saw the ragged neck-cloth, the scurfy hat, the broken and patched boots, the threadbare coat, whose buttons had shed their mould, leaving the empty shrivelled pod dangling in congruity with the torn pockets and the dirty collar. Scraps of flue were in the creases of the coat, which showed plainly the dust that filled it.
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