It is characteristic of the want of spontaneousness in Latin literature, as compared with the fresh and varied impulses which the Greek genius obeyed in every stage of its literary development, that reflection on the principles of composition, efforts to form the language into a more certain and uniform vehicle, and comment on living writers, were carried on concurrently with the creative efforts of the more original minds.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Jane Austen all ease and spontaneousness and simplicity, George Eliot wonderful in strength and passion, and fond of probing the depths of human anguish, but often ponderous in long-drawn philosophy and metaphysics, and with a tediously cynical and flippant tone underlying her portraits of human beings-and a wearisome lingering over uninteresting details.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
She was full of these graceful flatteries, that proved the more effective because of their seeming spontaneousness.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens