How To Use Poetical In A Sentence

The analogical structure and poetical impulse that runs through all of the paired images are even found in the artist's single images such as his Giglio.
Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad. Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Hawk_, _The Tunning of_ Elianer Rumpkin: In many of which, following the humor of the ancientest of our Modern Poets, he takes a Poetical The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
No! take it easy," said Robinson; "he is a poet; this is what they call poetical license. It Is Never Too Late to Mend
Upon my poetical veracity I do not see the strength of your objection, but as matrimony is a very tender subject, as well as a longwinded one, I had better give you Mr Pitt's answer when he did not choose to give any, 'I have not made up my mind.' Letter 265

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The country teems with "poets, poetasters, poetitos, and poetaccios:" every man has his recognised position in literature as accurately defined as though he had been reviewed in a century of magazines, -- the fine ear of this people [22] causing them to take the greatest pleasure in harmonious sounds and poetical expressions, whereas a false quantity or a prosaic phrase excite their violent indignation. First Footsteps in East Africa
Never mind; we can make believe that the queen has sent them off, so as not to scare Pocahontas; that's what they call poetical license," said Polly. Half a Dozen Girls
If it had been in one of those accepted as genuine and poetical I would have remembered the ballad, but my impression is that it was condemned as a fabrication for this and other neologies. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
Rather unpoetically, ‘Plain Layne ‘creator Odin Soli is an average 35-year-old man who lives with his wife and two kids in Woodbury.’
[...] 12th, 2006 by Angela Natividad · No Comments ‘Iconistan,’ a term poetically coined by Sphere CEO Tony Conrad, is the social newscluster that lives on your blog. Iconistan* « Sphere Blog
Version but four times in all, always in poetical passages; the first in (Exodus 15: 14) and Isai 14: 29 The second (Joel 3: 4) In each case the Hebrew is Pelesheth, a word found, besides the above, only in (Psalms 60: 8; 83: 7; 87: 4) and Psal 108: 9 In all which our translators have rendered it by "Philistia" or Smith's Bible Dictionary
This program, called, “Teikei” poetically translates to, “the farmer’s face on it,” though a more literal translation is “cooperation” or “partnership.” Tigers & Strawberries » Community Supported Agriculture
Julia Stiles is a lovely and determined Viola, but monotonously and unpoetically spoken.
He has been now absolved of all guilt, and his forgeries recognised as poetical Dada boutades.
Though the libretto is not very carefully written, it is better than the average performances of this {177} kind, and with poetical intuition Schefsky has refrained from the temptation, to make it turn out well, as Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer has done in her play of L'orle, which is a weak counterpart of Auerbach's village-tragedy. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
I'm not about to say here that everyone should write transparently any more than everyone should write "poetically" (wait for it, I'll be taking issue with these terms later.) SeeLight:
The 40 page catalog is densely packed with images spanning the artist's career while texts by Mark Alice Durant and Spaid poetically interpret and analyze the work.
Despite the narrator's poetically expressed assertion that "history tightropes toward family," history barely puts in an appearance here.
But in striking contrast to Shakespere and to others, Middleton has no kind of poetical morality in the sense in which the term poetical justice is better known. A History of Elizabethan Literature
Of all dreams, that of the alchymist is the most poetical, for he looked at the finest symbol. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
Fortunately, this volume does not lose sight of the strangeness of the poetical perspective; neither is it entirely devoted to the tangible and the earthy.
He describes the prolific misuse of poetical language by his contemporaries.
I have been trying - and not always 'poetically' - to posit that intelligence is a function that involves beings in relative place and time 'accessing', for lack of a better word, the space/field/infinity quotient that contains/permeates all matter, including chemicals and their processes. Telic Thoughts
The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
Some of the man-bashing and emotional blackmail seems a bit of a cop out when sections of the production are effectively dramatic and poetically lyrical.
Its affinities and poetical style seem to lie rather with Shakespeare's later than his earlier work.
A poetically intense awareness of life was coupled with a cool detachment from his characters. Times, Sunday Times
Again, it cannot be gainsaid that the greater number of those who hold high places in our poetical literature are absolute nincompoops - fellows alike innocent of reason and of rhyme.
It contains some pointed satire on the author's poetical contemporaries.
comically, poetically, rhythmically, etc.
His second and third sons were brought up in Aquitaine, and imbued with its poetical spirit; and the House of Anjou entirely overshadowed that of Capet. A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates
It will be found that grand style arises in poetry when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or severity a serious subject.
Philosophically as well as poetically his Platonism was a muddied stream. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
This quietly engaging two-hander is as poetical as its title. Times, Sunday Times
The word daisy was fashioned by speakers of Old English from the poetical "day's eye. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
She recounts the story of the boy, very poetically illustrating her close friendship with his mother.
The lyrics are very neatly turned, and contain poetical passages and lines of genuine humorous character.
This new montage style of cinema and the poetical style of Flaherty were clear influences on him.
Of these rare poetical pieces four are unnoticed by Lowndes; five of them are published anonymously; but their similarity to those with an author's name testifies the source from which the others emanated. Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849
Young (1681-1765), in his "Night Thoughts," produced a work eloquent rather than poetical, dissertative when true poetry would have been imaginative, but suggesting much of imagery and feeling as well as religious reflection. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
A poetical revolution has taken place there, my whole concern is got into new hands from the death of Mr Hood, and the relinquishment of the trade of the other partner. Letter 276
Among French perfumeries we have found, under the name of artificial oil of bitter almonds, and under the still more poetical name of "essence de mirbane," several samples of essential oils, which are no more nor less than nitrobenzol. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity-he is continually in for-and filling some other Body…
Titian, indeed, may be said to have first opened his eyes to the mysteries of nature; but they were no sooner opened, than he rushed into them with a rapidity and daring unwont to the more cautious spirit of his master; and, though irregular, eccentric, and often inferior, yet sometimes he made his way to poetical regions, of whose celestial hues even Titian himself had never dreamt. Lectures on Art
But value-free embroidery, a return to the poetical, has seemed to be one result.
The other is that while Tolstoy and Ibsen presently became, the one indifferent to artistic expression, and the other baldly prosaic where he was once deeply poetical, Bjornson preserved the poetic impulse of his youth, and continued to give it play even in his envisagement of the most practical modern problems. Bjornstjerne Bjornson
June 20, 2006, 4: 21 am dollar tokens for slot machines says: dollar tokens for slot machines ejaculations Libya undefinability stabled: neutralize poetical, The Volokh Conspiracy » Senators call for investigation of comments by Supreme Court leaks:
The singer poetically describes the panic, fear and struggle against the unappeasable invading force.
His poetical works include a famous 1718 translation of Lucan.
The metre is a species of the Basít which, however, admits of considerable poetical license; this being according to Lane the usual “Weight,” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The sagaman consults poetical justice very well at first, and prepares us for an unfortunate end by depicting Grettir as, though valiant and in a way not ungenerous, yet not merely an incorrigible scapegrace, but somewhat unamiable and even distinctly ferocious. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
It is called poetically leghma, “tears” of the dates. Travels in Morocco
Texts: "The poetical Romances of Tristan in French, in Anglo-Norman, and in Greek," ed. Francisque Michel, London, 1835-9, 3 vols. 8vo. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
His Elfrida is exquisite, both in poetical description and moral sentiment; and his Caractacus is a noble drama [985]. Life Of Johnson
They seem to represent a bursting out, possibly in impatience, from both the complexity and the constrictions of the current American poetical idiolect.
Poets have formed what they call a poetical system of things, which though it be believed neither by themselves nor readers, is commonly esteemed a sufficient foundation for any fiction. A Treatise of Human Nature
A commonplace material designed to bring order to a garden was poetically transformed to explore the activity of ordering in a gallery.
Lebanon (that is, the cool melted snow water of Lebanon, as he presently explains), which cometh from the rock of the field (a poetical name for Lebanon, which towers aloft above the surrounding field, or comparatively plain country)? Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
But I can't help seeing there's a kind of -- what they call poetical justice in it, the blow coming from him. The Second Latchkey
‘That's right,’ she said, unpinning the scarf and allowing her chestnut hair to cascade poetically over her shoulders.
The hog is all nature, the ship is all art, “coarse canvass,” “blue bunting,” and “tall poles;” both are violently acted upon by the wind, tossed here and there, to and fro, and yet nothing but excess of hunger could make me look upon the pig as the more poetical of the two, and then only in the shape of a griskin. Life of Lord Byron
This is a collection of me poetically for you to view so that you can know and understand a little more of my poetic history.
It is no longer the subject of art or of thought: they have no poetical power today, I think.
Synagogues began… to appoint official precentors, part of whose duty it was to compose poetical additions to the liturgy on special Sabbaths and festivals.
Celt, and certainly no Barney McCrea of her day would have kissed her if she had spilled ever so many pitchers of sweet buttermilk over the plain; so we took the railway, and departed with delight for Limavady, where Thackeray, fresh from his visit to Charles Lever, laid his poetical tribute at the stockingless feet of Miss Margaret of that town. Penelope's Irish Experiences
He now became a frequent competitor for poetical fame.
The cornerstone mission for Prometheus is a spacecraft descriptively, if unpoetically, called Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter.
His "Hymn to Contentment" was published in Steele's Poetical Miscellanies (1714).
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[5] this maxim is as true as ever fell from poetical pen & there has more morality distilled from the waters of Helicon [6] than ever was procured from the withered skulls of metaphysicians or Philosophers. Letter 51
In a sense, the example of subsemiotic narrative which is a central theme of Joyce's Dubliners is also evident in Finnegan's Wake, although in a more mythopoetical sense. Xml's Blinklist.com
Dr de Grey is a promoter of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, a competition to produce, by medical intervention, the oldest living mouse (the record holder to date, unpoetically named Mouse GHR-KO 11C, hung on for 1,819 days).
For the Australian situation presents a fairly clear-cut picture of some three distinct schools of poetry operating at a degree of intensity never before known in this remarkably uncultured and unpoetical country.
A kind of mellowing atmosphere surrounds all objects in his pages, and tinges them with poetical hues. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
For a stint, he was "in the weeds" -- as his ever-changing world of taste laid in the wild -- little-known leaves, weeds, and flowers like Queen Anne's lace, chicory root, and pigweed -- more poetically called lamb's quarters. Rozanne Gold: Chopra and Vongerichten Talk Food
His poetical reputation was as bright and transient as the plants and flowers which formed the subject of his verse.
A first book of the poems, The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor, followed in 1939, after which poets and scholars began to read him and write about him.
God's method of arresting the flood and making its waters subside is poetically called a "rebuke" (Ps 76: 6; Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
From boyhood the romantic, poetically inclined hero, Denis Stone, found the word carminative particularly evocative. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2
The Triads are a peculiar species of poetical composition, of which the Welsh bards have left numerous examples.
He is a poetical soul and, on the sea voyage to India, he falls for a broody girl in Cape Town looking to get pregnant.
The actors work too hard at their Brooklyn accents and Miller belabors his point, but he at least demonstrates the craft to do it poetically and smoothly. The Witty Bits of a Play
A viciously intense, poetically raw story, interspersed with moments of dark humor, about two young men - Bassam, the narrator, and his friend since childhood, George - known as De Niro, for his habit of playing Russian roulette like Robert De Niro's character in Bookbrowse - Best Recent Reader Reviews
Yet Aristotle is confident that Thales belongs, even if honorifically, to that group of thinkers that he calls “inquirers into nature” and distinguishes him from earlier poetical “myth-makers.” Presocratic Philosophy
He may be considered the poetical progenitor of Burns.
The name of _tenson_ was given to those poetical contests in verse which took place in the Courts of Love, or before illustrious princes. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
I am an actress, a mimicker, a sham creature - me… how I do loathe my most impotent and unpoetical craft!
Of all dreams, that of the alchemist is the most poetical, for he looked at the finest symbol. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
Mr Ellis was the poetical antiquary and friend of Scott.
To the American mind enwrapment in the star-jewelled zodiac may appear as natural as their ordinary oratorical references to the star-spangled banner; but the idea is essentially transatlantic, and not even the most poetical European astronomer could have risen to such a height of imagery. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
Today I am full of, as Ogden Nash would say, "unpoetical material"; tonight Ester and Elisabeth are sitting in the room reading and talking poetry.
In Finch's hands, what could have been a simple plein-air painting of the sky morphs into a cerebral yet poetically lively hybrid.
You cannot just start writing down truisms, lest you end up writing prose, so how do you start poetically?
He treasures Parveen's poetical works inscribed by the poetess herself to Aitzaz Ahsan.
I am an actress, a mimicker, a sham creature - me… how I do loathe my most impotent and unpoetical craft!
BY this very elaborate and poetically ingenious figure, the prophet appears to be giving a contrived representation of the fact, that when God brings in the promised day of his universal reign in the earth, there will be a grand convergency of causes to prepare it, and, like so many concurrent prayers, to make common suit for it before Him. Christian Nurture.
A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.
The metaphorical and poetical use of language creates no exterior visions on stage but interior visions in the minds of the spectators.
And sometimes, not having the fear of poetical, or rather of unpoetical precisians and martinets before his eyes, he did not even scruple to naturalize words for his own use from foreign springs, such as exsufflicate and deracinate; or to coin a word, whenever the concurring reasons of sense and verse invited it; as in fedary, intrinse, intrinsicate, insisture, and various others. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
And it must be said, your faults, mesdames, are all the more poetical, because they must always and under all circumstances be surrounded by greater perils. Another Study of a Woman
Though Wildeve's fevered feeling had elaborated to real poetical compass, it was of the standard sort.
It was clear to a mind so acute as Bruno's that the dogmas of the Church were correlated to a view of the world which had been superseded; and he drew the logical inference that they were at bottom but poetical and popular adumbrations of the Deity in terms concordant with erroneous physical notions. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. Common. Reader.
In the very design of Gibbon there is a certain poetical attraction; his work may aptly be described as panoramic, unrolling a vast picture or succession of pictures, too vague in outline and too monotonous in color for minute impressions, yet, on this account, the more remarkable for general effect. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
Mr. Mason has published another drama, called Caractacus; there are some incantations poetical enough, and odes so Greek as to have very little meaning. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
The trauma acted as an impulse to her poetical compositions.
The barman was reading a battered old gilt-and-green-leather edition of the poetical works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Poets have form'd what they call a poetical system of things, which tho 'it be believ'd neither by themselves nor readers, is commonly esteem'd a sufficient foundation for any fiction. A treatise of human nature
Marino abounds in puerile conceits; but they are not far-fetched, like those of Donne and Cowley; they generally lie on the surface, and often consist of nothing more than a mere play upon words; so that, if to be a punster is to be a metaphysician, Marino is a poetical Heraclitus. Lives of the English Poets
Of the many poetical and rhetorical titles lavished upon this country, none is truer than that which calls her the Isle of Song. Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.
Among French perfumeries we have found, under the name of artificial oil of bitter almonds, and under the still more poetical name of "essence de mirbane," several samples of essential oils, which are no more nor less than nitrobenzol. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
The man of the world, the scholar, and the poetical artist are happily blended in his satirical productions.
Their counterparts are the more poetically named lacecaps, whose papery bracts (flower-like modified leaves) circle a mauve to pink head of minuscule flowers.
The young poet profited by the attacks of the critics, their effect being to enlarge his poetical studies.
Dido [2] make her bulls hide very extensive & I can stretch my subject. mere poetical flourishes without any moral principle inculcated is like — a false building in a city garden — or Burkes book [3] — or two certain looking glasses. they have often reflected upon me — retaliation is but fair. Letter 70
If you're not sure the poem has worked this way, it hasn't worked poetically.
This was describing in a very poetical manner the splendour of the micaceous and talcy slates of his country! Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
The metaphorical and poetical use of language creates no exterior visions on stage but interior visions in the minds of the spectators.
The philosophies which are "redargued" are divided into three classes, the sophistical, of which the best example is Aristotle, who, according to Bacon, forces nature into his abstract schemata and thinks to explain by definitions; the empirical, which from few and limited experiments leaps at once to general conclusions; and the superstitious, which corrupts philosophy by the introduction of poetical and theological notions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
We are indeed so much used to what they call poetical justice, that we are disappointed in the catastrophe of a fable, if everybody concerned in it be not disposed of according to the sentence of that judge which we have set up in our own breasts. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
ATTRIBUTION: JOHN DRYDEN, Horace, the Twenty-Ninth Ode of the Third Book, stanza 9, The Poetical Works of Dryden, new ed.rev. and enl., ed. George R. Noyes, p. 200 (1950). John Dryden (1631-1700)
True that there was then no life or spirit in the poetical vocabulary -- true that there was no nature in the delineations of our minor poets; but better far was such language than the slip-slop vulgarities of the present rhymester -- better far that there should be no nature in poetry, than _such_ nature as Mr Patmore has exhibited for the entertainment of his readers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
Now, the rouged flamboyancy of the red mullet lends itself to poetical flourishes, as the flavour of the flesh, interestingly, lends itself to the woodier notes and refined elegance of bay. Mullet Resting On Its Laurels
Poetically, the tapestry resolved itself as his eye grated into the lens.
It's a criss-cross between a fairytale storybook and 1001 nights (which could also be called a storybook, I suppose), written in a very poetical language. Archive 2009-03-01
Holding her face, he reflects poetically that he has finally found the woman he has been waiting for.
Even if you discount the improbability of such poetically contrived melodrama, there are difficulties with this.
She transcribed his verses for his first volume, The Hope of Liberty, Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces (1829).
Several narratives concerning a mythopoetical whole may be found. Archive 2008-09-01
What would make the readers sense, imagine, experience the reality you have poetically conjured to finally bring home the theme or message?
While we thus lightly dismiss sensual love as unpoetical, we must remember that Burns, in some of his accounts of inspiration, ascribes quite as powerful and as unidealistic an effect to the kisses of the barmaids, as to the liquor they dispense. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
He was a large poetical contributor to Blackwood's Magazine.
If you've seen Mr. Guirgis's funny, poetically profane, Tony-nominated play, "The Motherf**ker With the Hat," his modest, soft-spoken demeanor might come as a surprise. Growing Up With the Hat
Even this mad letter-writing has a strongly poetical element.
However, he consoled himself with what was in truth a rare consolation for a budding lover, that he was under the same roof with Lizzy; her guest, in fact, to take a poetical view of the term lodger; and that he would certainly see her on the morrow. Wessex Tales
We come to see just how much history is poetically embedded in his tall tales.
But the term poetical does not appear very applicable to the generality of Dutch painting; and a little reflection will show us, that if the Italians represent only the invariable, they cannot be properly compared even to historians. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
After which an unlucky thirdsman, interfering, gets shot, and buried _as_ one of the others -- "which is witty, let us 'ope," as the poetical historian of the quarrel between A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
Though, for our part, we are 'fully convinced that the fcience of criticifm, like mod others, has received great improvement fince the ages of thofe writers; and that a much more accurate teft of poetical excellence might be ap - plied, than the loofe and dubious fentences of the above poet - critic and. critic* poet; yet Mr.W. 's paraphraftical application, The Monthly Review
I also had one truly unique find: a copy of The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore bound in snakeskin. Times-Colonist Book Sale in . . . Snakeskin? « Reading Copy
A visit of his youth to the Island grave of Chateaubriand; his early memories, as a poetical aspirant, of the magnificent flatteries by which Victor Hugo made himself the god of young romantic Paris; his talks with Montalembert in the days of _L'Avenir_; his memories of Lamennais 'sombre figure, of Maurice de Guérin's feverish ethereal charm; his account of the opposition _salons_ under the Empire -- they had all been elaborated in the course of years, till every word fitted and each point led to the next with the' inevitableness 'of true art. Robert Elsmere
It is remarked by Watts that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
He and a few risk-seeking partners convinced the Federal Housing Administration that it would be a grand idea to build several tracts of government-subsidized low-income housing way the hell out past nowhere, in a godforsaken swath of desert poetically named Hesperia. The Dark Side of Innocence
Because I am poetically challenged, I fobbed the judging of the poetry contest onto my son Gordon, (author of “Flight of the Pellets”) who is home for two weeks in between interning with the Wilderness Society in Washington, D.C. this summer and beginning his junior year of college. Uncategorized Blog Posts
Once the ‘Trilogie’ was pressed in picture discs and bound in a box, Ulver abandoned Black Metal to wax unpoetically on William Blake.
Malken can get poetically drunk, and usually does, on one cocktail; Aaron Hancock is an expert wine-bibber; and Terrence McFane, knowing little of one drink from another, and caring less, can put ninety-nine men out of a hundred under the table and go right on lucidly expounding epicurean anarchy. CHAPTER X
In French we have them all masculine, strictly speaking, le printemps, l'été, l'automne, l'hiver; but by one of the very few licenses permitted in French grammar, autumn occasionally becomes feminine, in a sense half poetical, half euphonical. Rural Hours
Paris, and under the same circumstance of pressure, -- the want of a word that began with a vowel, -- because a word beginning with a consonant could not, of course, follow the last foot of a dactyle ending with a consonant; -- therefore Ovid took refuge in what is called "poetical license," which is a gentle term for expressing departure from syntax. Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
The teenage victor of strenuous battles against the most formidable and seasoned of opponents, his ferocious gifts were alloyed with a beguiling sensitivity to all things poetical.
Dear Sensibility!" said I, "source inexhausted of all that is precious in our (poetical) joys, or costly in our (dramatic) sorrows! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892
To be plaine, I am voyde of al judgement, if your nine Com{oe}dies, whereunto, in imitation of Herodotus, you give the names of the Nine Muses, and (in one man's fansie not unworthily), come not neerer Ariostoes Com{oe}dies, eyther for the finenesse of plausible elocution, or the rareness of poetical invention, than that Elvish queene doth to his Orlando Furioso, which notwithstanding, you will needes seem to emulate, and hope to overgo, as you flatly professed yourself in one of your last letters. A Biography of Edmund Spenser
Silliman approaches the history of this community through the stories of her ‘foremothers’, an unpoetic term for such poetically named women as Ruby, Flower and Farah.
This, dear reader, is my mud-faced conjoint* and that curious behavior of his, in a clamshell, is the difference between him and me; the difference, I now realize, between really living life and poetically lusting after it from the boardwalk above. Jean-Marc
If you know some English, you may try and translate Sri Ramana's poetical works into Chinese.
They spoiled the poetical knight of 5000 sheep, 200 nolt, 30 horses and mares; the whole furniture of his house of Blythe, worth 100 pounds Scots (L8. 6s. 8d.), and every thing else that was portable. Marmion
The Mona Liza is a sort of riddle, an acrostic, a poetical decoction, a ballade, a rondel, a villanelle or ballade with double burden, a sestina, that is what it is like, a sestina or chant royal. Memoirs of My Dead Life
The prize amounted to 500 lire and a copy of d'Annunzio's complete poetical works.
He decked out the interior with beautiful copper ducting for the extraction and put the poetically short menu on blackboards. Times, Sunday Times
Later, when their peerage was conferred, they lost a little of their yeoman simplicity, and became peruked and robed and breeched; one, indeed, in the age of George III., who was blessed with poetical aspirations, appeared in bare feet and a Michael
In England in the 1590s, poetical lovemaking seems to have become a kind of epidemic.
It and the peak Abyla, on the opposite (African) coast, were styled by the Greeks, in their poetical language, "the pillars of Hercules;" whilst the strait between is said to have been executed by the same man of muscle, to wile away the tedium of an idle hour. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
The 40 page catalog is densely packed with images spanning the artist's career while texts by Mark Alice Durant and Spaid poetically interpret and analyze the work.
Sidney expressed indifference to prosody: "... the greatest part of poets have appareled their poetical inventions in that numbrous kind of writing which is called verse."
Wordsworth's Poetical and Prose Works appeared in 1896.
The sudden discontinuity was often poetically associated with the attaining of enlightenment.
The challenge of translating the richness and complexity of Aeschylus's language into a poetically charged but sayable English that was still faithful to the original Greek did indeed distract me from the pain that I was living through.
The aim of the compiler has been to bring together verses which will continue to give abiding delight to the poetically minded reader.
It also depicted her as one of the boys, or, more poetically, as a kind of Cleopatra floating down the river with a boatful of male artists.
England, at least to defend its liberties; to improve burlesque into satire; to free translation from the fetters of verbal metaphrase, and exclude it from the licence of paraphrase; to teach posterity the powerful and varied poetical harmony of which their language was capable; to give an example of the lyric ode of unapproached excellence; and to leave to English literature a name, second only to those of The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author
England blank verse, which he borrowed from the Italian _versi sciolti_, fixing that decasyllable iambic rhythm for English versification in which our greatest poetical triumphs have been achieved. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
The drama is well conceived and executed, but here also he follows another poetical master, Ben Jonson.
Here may be a key to understanding the liberties he takes with the painters whose lives he poetically reinvents.
His Comus is a master-piece of poetical composition. Imogen A Pastoral Romance
They have relapsed into the analphabetic state of their ancestors; they are great at eloquence; and, though without our poetical forms, they have a variety of songs upon all subjects and they improvise panegyrics in honour of chiefs and guests. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Mr. Cresta Morris wore white collars and beautiful ties, had a large gold watch-chain over what the French call poetically a _gilet de fantasie_, but which he, in his own homely fashion, described as a "fancy weskit. Bones in London
A 1964 act defines wilderness, rather poetically, as "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammelled by man".
The main theme of the works of Eco is a mythopoetical totality. "Although people in humanities have always lamented the state of the field..."
But this passage is more honorable to the manufactures than to the navigation of Phoenicia, from whence they had been imported to Troy in Phrygian bottoms.] 58 See in Ovid (de Arte Amandi, iii. 269, &c.) a poetical list of twelve colors borrowed from flowers, the elements, &c. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Two young women were in attendance, as was — in spirit only — William Cullen Bryant, poetical elegist of an Indian maiden thwarted in love who, legend said, had thrown herself off a precipice of this same mountain. January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The hawthorn was the special wood used for fire-burial in Germany; hence the figurative poetical expression which would make Hagen a synonym for death. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
How many several hurly-burlies of fools! for I myself sometimes sit among those poetical gods. In Praise of Folly
Our concern is the more radical impingement of what those people had and have to say poetically, of their different poetic languages, on that of Latin America.
The first of these dynasties is that of Kaiomors, as Sir W. Jones observes, the dark and fabulous period; the second, that of the Kaianian, the heroic and poetical, in which the earned have discovered some curious, and imagined some fanciful, analogies with the Jewish, the Greek, and the Roman accounts of the eastern world. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
I was so awkward a booby, that I dared scarcely speak to her; I was filled with awe and embarrassment in her presence; but I was so inspired that my poetical temperament for the first time broke out in verse; and I fabricated some glowing lines, in which I berhymed the little lady under the favourite name of Sacharissa. Tales of a Traveller
The Acacia Seyal, formerly abundant by the banks of the river, is now almost entirely confined to certain valleys of the Theban desert, along with a variety of the kernelled dôm-palm, of which a poetical description has come down to us from the Ancient Egyptians. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
The Bhagavad-Gita occupies an intermediate position between scripture and theology; for it combines the poetical qualities of the first with the clear-cut methodicalness of the second. The Perennial Philosophy
Proud of their scholarly attainments, they used Latin in their poetical compositions. and thus arose a special literature, the goliardic poetry. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
In completing my own offering on scepticism as a rhetorical-poetical "war of ideas," I turn to the close grappling between Byron and Hemans over the enthymeme, or rhetorical syllogism, which like the epideictic is a legacy of the classical Sophism. [ 'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_
The Keri is better: "a heifer threshing"; the strongest were used for threshing, and as the law did not allow their mouth to be muzzled in threshing (De 25: 4), they waxed wanton with eating. bellow as bulls -- rather, "neigh as steeds," literally, "strong ones," a poetical expression for steeds (see on [994] Jer 8: 16) [Maurer]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The main theme of the works of Tarantino is a mythopoetical totality. Archive 2008-09-01
The prophetic message consisted of three different portions: -- First, Sennacherib is apostrophized (2Ki 19: 21-28) in a highly poetical strain, admirably descriptive of the turgid vanity, haughty pretensions, and presumptuous impiety of the Assyrian despot. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
I find one of the most hopeful areas is poetical writing from these war zones.
The picturesque, to be sure, is equally deficient in his chirography and in his poetical productions.
And Mr. Wylder looked poetically unhappy, and trundled over a little bit of fricandeau on his plate with his fork, desolately, as though earthly things had lost their relish. Wylder's Hand
Among the moderns, indeed, there has arisen a chimerical method of disposing the fortune of the persons represented, according to what they call poetical justice; and letting none be unhappy but those who deserve it. Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer
A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. La Fee Verte | Edwardian Promenade
Beyond the natural interest a soldier has for imaginative minds in the civil walks of life, De Stancy's occasional manifestations of taedium vitae were too poetically shaped to be repellent. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
In Moscow there is strange confluence of physical and poetical landscapes.
La Fee Verte A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything ... The Viennese Cafe | Edwardian Promenade
[Footnote 17: In Servian, Belgrade is called Beograd, "white city;" -- poetically, "white eagle's nest."] [Footnote 18: I think that a traveller ought to see all that he can; but, of course, has no right to feel surprised at being excluded from citadels.] [Footnote 19: One of the representatives of the ancient imperial family is the Earl of Devon, for Urosh the Great married Helen of Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.

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