And that lady now vowed eternal war against the heroical peer.

The brave youths that then (to their high praises) so feelingly performed the same in action, did shortly after lay up the book unregarded, or perhaps let it run abroad (as many parents do their children once past dandling) not respecting so much what hard fortune might befall it being out of their fingers, as how their heroical wits might again be quickly conceived have been ever since wonderful fertile.

Heroical as I trust my undertaking proves me, I fear no man's censure, and court no man's applause.

In one of his heroical epistles, that of King John to Matilda, he has the following lines.

His death was very heroical, and yet unaffected enough to have made a saint, or a philosopher famous.

Another of his merits is a certain tender gallantry, or rather an honest admixture of animal passion with spiritual, also the precursor of the like ingenuous emotions in Ariosto; and he furthermore set his follower the example, not only of good breeding, but of a constant heroical cheerfulness, looking with faith on nature.

He then arose in fury, and tore off mail and breastplate, and every particle of clothing from his body, till humanity was degraded in his heroical person, and he became naked as the beasts of the field.

It is said, indeed, to have been actually resorted to more than once; and possibly may have been so, even from a knowledge of it; for what is more natural with heroical minds than that the like outrages should produce the like virtues?

He received in return a blow on the face, and is said by Tasso to have brought a set of his kinsmen to assassinate him, all of whom the heroical poet immediately put to flight.

his naturally kind, loving, just, and heroical disposition to condescend to almost every species of inconsistency.

He was also very jealous, especially of the heroical Rinaldo, Prince of Este; and as the squadron of horse to which they both belongedthe greatest in the armyhad lately been deprived of its chief, Eustace cast in his mind how he might keep Rinaldo from going with Armida, and at the same time secure his own attendance on her, by advancing him to the vacant post.

Ubaldo told the fugitive that it would be heroical in him to wait and hear what the lady had to say, with gentleness and firmness.

Themistocles drank bull's blood, rather than he would fight against his country, and Demosthenes chose rather to drink poison, Publius Crassi filius, Censorius and Plancus, those heroical Romans to make away themselves, than to fall into their enemies' hands.

How much, on the other side, are all we bound that are scholars, to those munificent Ptolemies, bountiful Maecenases, heroical patrons, divine spirits, "qui nobis haec otio fecerunt, namque erit ille mihi semper Deus" "These blessings, friend, a Deity bestow'd, For never can I deem him less than God.

Dante's best critic, Foscolo, has said much of the heroical nature of the age in which the poet lived; but he adds, that its mixture of knowledge and absurdity is almost inexplicable.

Hast thou not heard of Ionia's, Ne'er been instructed in Hellas' Legends, from ages primeval, Godlike, heroical treasure?

In its simple and heroical arcades, its solid columns, and noble open spaces, the strength of Rome is realised to the eyes of those who do not penetrate too far inside the building.

For this reason, my Lord, though you have courage in an heroical degree, yet I ascribe it to you

During this visitation, "he carried himself with so much heroical charity," says his biographer, "as will make the reader wonder to hear it."

"It is therefore an heroical achievment to dispossess this imaginary monarch.

But, to speak in a mean the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue.

But when a Man has been at some Pains in making suitable Returns to an Enemy, and has the Instruments of Revenge in his Hands, to let drop his Wrath, and stifle his Resentments, seems to have something in it Great and Heroical.

In the middle ages all heroical stories of antiquity, from Theseus and Achilles down to Alexander, were metamorphosed into true tales of chivalry.

Did I for this consume my quarters in Meditation, Vowes, and wooed her in Heroical Epistles?

Rome is fallen, I hear, the gallant Medici taken, Noble Manara slain, and Garibaldi has lost il Moro; Rome is fallen; and fallen, or falling, heroical Venice.