Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the contrary - yet it must be bright, clear, alive fresh, and all the front seen.
There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.