Well, in the first place his defects do not detract from his purely poetic qualities.

Naturally such an age of revolution was essentially poetic,only the Elizabethan Age surpasses it in this respect,and it produced a large number of minor writers, who followed more or less closely the example of its great leaders.

And once more: "As it oftenest happens also, with natures of genuinely poetic quality, those piecemeal beginnings came suddenly to harmonious completeness among the fortunate incidents, the physical heat and light, of one singularly happy day.

His painting of the "Spring," suggested by a passage from Lucretius, is exquisitely poetic; and yet the true spirit of the Latin verse has not been seizedto have done that would have taxed the energies of Titianbut something special to the artist and significant for Medicean scholarship has been added.

A beautifully poetic composition: yet the painter lived and died nearer to indigence than ease.

A stern picture it is, which even the softer touches render sterner; still there is nought in it that revolts or shocks; it is deeply poetic, calls into passionate action the feelings of reverence and pity, and has all the dignity of tragedy.

Even in Oriental literature, usually so gross and licentious, one may come across a charmingly poetic yet entirely sensual picture like the following from the Persian Gulistan (339).

If the art of reading were cultivated in America as it is in France and Germany, I would not be surprised if some American Legouvé or Strakosch were to add to his répertoire such productions of prose as this humorously poetic "Zeus's Sentence," or that mystic madrigal, "Be Blessed.

How charming it was to find his most spiritual exhortations seized upon with the eager comprehension of a nature innately poetic and ideal:

At Kishangarh, a small State midway between Ajmer and Jaipur, a series of intensely poetic paintings were produced between the years 1750 and 1760the prime stimulus being the delight of Raja Sawant Singh in Krishna's romance.

He says you were a great Scandinavian queen; that your presence, your voice, your movement made a marvelously poetic harmony; that your dress was grandly imagined and grandly wornand that he cannot criticizehe can only remember.

"But the graveyard at midnight!" "Well, perhaps he won't hold out for midnightBilly is merely poetic at timesand maybe if we hurry along, we can catch up with him and have it out by the marble works there instead of going clear on to the cemetery.

In the last and most nobly poetic of the series, The Passing of Arthur, the time is winter, when the knights seem to be clothed with their own frosty breath.

The time was preeminently poetic.

The genuine expression of popular feeling is always forcible, not seldom poetic.

In such work as this she would have been much more successful, from the strictly poetic point of view, than she has been, if she had not attempted to give her theories a clothing in verse.

Esther was not actively religious, any more than she was actively poetic.

Wherefore poetic has this in common with rhetoric; that both are the servants of the state.

Because the imaginative realization of poetry is characterized by passion, intensity, and immediacy, the author of the treatise feels with Aristotle that the dramatic is the most characteristically poetic.

He writes in very strict measure, but without the least inversion or inflation, without a touch of Elizabethan, or conventionally poetic, diction.

Mr. Allan Cunningham's "Account" is, perhaps, the most characteristic that has yet appeared: it is full of truth, nature, kindly feeling, and tinged throughout with a delightfully poetic enthusiasm.

A few of the more distinctively poetic and imaginative passages may be quoted, in order to give some idea of the style.

The poet-novelist is apt to put into his prose a good deal of the same charm and the same picturesque choice of phrase and image that characterize his verse; while it does not follow that the novelist who at times writes verselike George Eliot, for examplesucceeds in giving a distinctly poetic quality to prose, or even wishes to do so.

Meditating upon Tintoretto's choice of such subjects, we feel that the profoundest characteristic of his genius is the determination toward motives pre-eminently poetic rather than proper to the figurative arts.