2324 examples of poetic in sentences

Happy, she might have been beautiful, for happiness imparts a poetic charm to women, as dress is the artifice of it.

As his fine poetic nature gradually revealed itself, she began to mother him.

It is invested with more poetic interest.

Safe, so he thought, though all the prudent chid; He writ no libels, but my lady did; Great odds, in amorous or poetic game, Where woman's is the sin, and man's the shame.

The invaluable art of inoculation, which she brought from Constantinople, so dear to all admirers of beauty, and to which we owe, perhaps the preservation of yours, stamps her an universal benefactress; and as you rival her in poetic talents I had rather you would employ them to celebrate her for her nostrum, than detect her for rom

Full of poetic fire and inspiration, there was in Gérard at the same time a strong critical propensity, that showed itself in his caustic wit and, sometimes, not unmalicious remarks.

The prose was written chiefly in the south of England after the greatest poetic masterpieces had been produced.

We must next note that Chaucer's life was not that of a poetic dreamer, but of a stirring business man.

Before he reached his poetic prime, he showed two periods of influence,French and Italian.

Was the poetic form of the play the regular vehicle of dramatic expression?

In imagination and poetic feeling, he has some kinship with the Elizabethans.

" His facility in melodious poetic expression is evident in this stanza from The Litany, one of the poems in Noble Numbers, as the collection of his religious verse is called: "When the passing-bell doth toll And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.

Much of his prose is poetic and adorned with figures of rhetoric.

" To begin with, he had, like Shakespeare and Keats an instinctive feeling for the poetic value of words and phrases.

Milton's early poems abound in such poetic expressions as "the frolic wind," "the slumbring morn," "linkèd sweetness," "looks commercing with the skies," "dewy-feathered sleep," "the studious cloister's pale," "a dim religious light," the "silver lining" of the cloud, "west winds with musky wing," "the laureate hearse where Lycid lies."

His poetic instinct enabled him to take common prosaic words and, by merely changing the position of the adjective, transmute them into imperishable verse.

Twentieth century criticism is more fully recognizing the debt of subsequent poetic literature to Milton.

lofty, elevated, sublime; eloquent; vehement, petulant, impassioned; poetic.

Adj. poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic &c n.; metrical; a catalectin^; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic^; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic^; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic^, Pindaric.

You call to mind more freshly than poetic or historic page, song, or speaking canvass, that glorious record which was graven more than two centuries ago by the first exiles from European oppression upon the granite rocks of New England,"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

For they, too, to judge by every great lyric which remains to us, require a groundwork of consistent self-coherent belief; and they require also an appreciation of melody even more delicate, and a verbal polish even more complete than any other form of poetic utterance.

Are they any more like our modern poetic forms than they are like our modern poetic matter?

Are they any more like our modern poetic forms than they are like our modern poetic matter?

So it is, even to this day, and let those who hanker after poetic fame take note of it; not a poem which is now really living but has gained its immortality by virtue of simplicity and positive faith.

" "Well," said Crayshaw, "I tried that subject because Mr. Mortimer said something about the true sustenance of the poetic life coming from the race and the soil to which the poet belonged; but George was so savage when I showed it to him that I felt obliged to burn it.

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