atticism

• These censures can never be just upon a poet, whose style has always been allowed to be perfectly attick, and of an atticism which made him extremely delightful to the lovers of the Athenian taste. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
• This last has especially charmed me; it is remarkable for grace, delicacy, atticism, and precision. —  Amiel's Journal
• He possesses an atticism of diction aided by a liberal education, a great fund of wit and humor meliorated by a perfect good nature and politeness. " —  Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground
• In order to make him a true classic, it was necessary to attribute to him later a design, a plan, literary invention, qualities of atticism and urbanity of which he had certainly never dreamed in the luxuriant development of his natural inspirations. —  Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
• Some of them, in which the black keys are exclusively taken, are acute and subtle, and remind us of the character of his own gaiety, lover of atticism as he was, subject only to the higher emotions, recoiling from all vulgar mirth, from coarse laughter, and from low enjoyments, as we do from those animals more abject than venomous, whose very sight causes the most nauseating repulsion in tender and sensitive natures. —  Life of Chopin

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