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. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
"No! take it easy," said Robinson; "he is a poet; this is what they call poetical license.". From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
But I can't help seeing there's a kind of -- what they call poetical justice in it, the blow coming from him. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Latchkey] Reference
"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. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Dozen Girls] Reference
I suppose you call a poetical description, missie. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea] Reference
On the day on which Omar was assassinated, the powers of the bricklayers in poetical and melodious imprecation wax stronger. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference
Not equal in poetical merit to the foregoing, but even more interesting because of their subject, are the lines which follow. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Henry Timrod.] Reference
He spoke of her with an enthusiasm which we called poetical exaggeration. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of Paris, V3] Reference
I am afraid I am growing poetical, which is a bad thing for. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Hansom Cab] Reference
Perhaps they ought more correctly to be called poetical mottoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
There are often in real life instances of what is called poetical justice. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
This is a peculiarly felicitous instance of what is called poetical justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
It is professedly an epic poem, but it may be more properly described as a poetical novel. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Lord Byron]
The poetical is the fictitious design of the action; the moral is the real design of the poem. From Wordnik.com. [The Columbiad] Reference
There are races, which we may call the poetical races, in which this is strikingly exemplified. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the idea of poetical inspiration and creativity fades away. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
All this is not perhaps what is called poetical justice, but my experience has been with the actual, not the ideal world. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852] Reference
In the writings of Miss Baillie there is a combination of the solemn and the poetical, which is rarely observed in women. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829] Reference
Hence it follows that, with all their much greater merit, his novels may still be described as poetical romances in prose. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens] Reference
Never believe that any thing can be truly noble or great, that any thing can be really poetical, which is not also religious. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
Rightly I think in the Author's Postscript is it observed, that what is called poetical Justice is chimerical, or rather anti-providential. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks on Clarissa (1749)] Reference
Parents know not what they do, when from vanity, thoughtlessness, or overindulgence, they foster in a young girl what is called a poetical taste. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain] Reference
The employment of rhyme in place of assonance, and of the alexandrine in place of the decasyllabic line, encouraged what may be called poetical padding. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
The element, which may fairly be called poetical, is derived from an inferior source; but sometimes has passion enough in it to lift him above mere prose. From Wordnik.com. [Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series] Reference
Curry, whom I used to call the poetical doctor, says, very justly, "It is in medicine as it is in morals, you must break bad habits, and establish good ones.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827] Reference
From any purely literary point of view, the texts are disappointing, exhibiting no great power of imagination, and nothing really worthy to be called poetical art. From Wordnik.com. [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference
We must allow for the temptation to indulge in so-called poetical license, although Villagran employs less of it than most Spanish chroniclers of the period that wrote in verse. From Wordnik.com. [Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico; I. Bibliographic Introduction Papers of the School of American Archaeology, No. 13] Reference
And then add in the fact that the lyrics are often "poetical" and thus not grammatical. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary Spanish song] Reference
She had a kind of poetical temperament, and she hoped some day to be able to write verses. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference
I do not know whether I mentioned a kind of poetical correspondence about Mazzini and Rossi. From Wordnik.com. [At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe] Reference
"I don't know sometimes but William's kind of poetical," she continued, in her gentlest voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen's Twin and Other Stories] Reference
Through the greater part of his life she continued to be a kind of poetical conscience to him. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
It is the idea that some things are not poetical which is literary, which is a mere product of words. From Wordnik.com. [Heretics] Reference
As a matter of linguistic detail it is probably not strictly correct to call the language of this passage "poetical" anyhow. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons to Believe -] Reference
It is not a case of a noble mind overthrown, but of the victory of a certain kind of poetical feeling over all rational inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [The Upton Letters] Reference
To call something "poetical" in this way is not of itself to deny its historicity, for example (consider Judges 5; Psalm 105; 106). From Wordnik.com. [Reasons to Believe -] Reference
My father attempts to make Shylock "poetical" (in the superficial sense), because that is the bias of his own mind in matters of art. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Girlhood] Reference
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