All the false-heroics of the literature of the Empire found their representative (their last one, perhaps) in Mme.

It was an age of extremes which bred despair and religious fervor in men of the Puritan party, as represented by Bunyan and Milton, and conscious artificiality and mock heroics in those of the Cavalier faction, as represented by Herrick and the Earl of Rochester.

But Dorset died in 1706; the Laureate's dull heroics found no vent; and ere the death of Queen Anne,an event which he bewailed in the least contemptible of his odes,his revenues were contracted to the official stipend.

As our friend, the Poet, once said, in some of those old-fashioned heroics of his which he keeps for his private reading, Call him not old, whose visionary brain Holds o'er the past its undivided reign.

Indeed he was hampered, as Wordsworth was not, by a lifelong adherence to a metrethe heroic coupletwith which this same poetic diction was most closely bound up.

He scorned alike the metaphysical subtleties of French philosophy and the moonshine heroics of German romanticism.

She would have died without hesitation, or lived in torment, for those she loved; but she would have done it in the finest, most matter-of-fact way in the world, and without a gleam of self-conscious heroics, whether of boasting or of martyr-meekness or of any other device for signaling attention to oneself.

craftsmen, encrusted with a heap of ormulu mock-heroics and impertinences and set perfectly to the time of day.

Thoroughness is a mistake, and nailing your flag to the mast a bit of delusive heroics.