elegantissimi

Updated: May 15, 2025

The mother was probably beautiful, since an old biographer, Van Ouickelberg, described her children as elegantissimi. There is every reason to believe that the wedded life of these two was thoroughly happy, save that Lassus was an indefatigable fiend of work.

Rupert Hughes - The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1

Nicholas, at Aberdeen, with the following inscription from the pen of Dr. James Gregory, Professor of Physic, at Edinburgh. Memoriae. Sacrum. JACOBI. BEATTIE. LL.D. Ethices. In. Academia. Marescallana. hujus. Urbis. Per. XLIII. Annos. Professoris. Meritissimi. Viri. Pietate. Probitate. Ingenio. atque. Doctrina. Praestantis. Scriptoris. Elegantissimi. Poetae. Suavissimi. Philosophi. Vere.

Henry Francis Cary - Lives of the English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of: Johnson's Lives