An opera with loud applause is played, Which famed Motteux in soft heroics made; And all the sworn Confederates resort, To view the triumph of their sovereign’s court.
Still again, in 1786, "Fingal" was done into heroicsby a Mr. R.
That second self was listening to heroics and even talking them, and surely heroics were a little out of date.
You see what these mock heroics will lead to," commented Lentulus, with sarcastic smile, as he observed his order had been obeyed.
I think the Cornelian gens can show quite as many death-masks in its atria, and your mock heroics will only stamp you as a very bad tragedian.
Nay," I continued, "this fit of heroicsto me is ridiculous.
Julia had lately got nearly to the bottom of her heroicswith Cotton.
But this probably only means that Buckingham and his friends had resolved to burlesque the absurdities of Davenant's operatic heroes in The Siege of Rhodes, and the extravagant heroics of The Indian Queen.
Not much more entertaining was his scriptural narrative of Moses in a Map of his Miracles, a sort of epic in heroics printed the same year.
Doing the most heroic things he nevertheless does them without indulging in any of the heroicswith which the fiction of books and the fiction of stagecraft love to invest the display of the finer and the higher emotions of mankind.
Here were being exemplified none of the histrionic principles of appliedheroics as we see them on the stage.
The flight would have had a better chance of success had Posa omitted his heroics altogether and quietly planned to escape with his friend.
In didactic poetry, of which the great purpose is instruction, a simile may be praised which illustrates though it does not ennoble; in heroics that may be admitted which ennobles, though it does not illustrate.
Virtue or vice, heroics hobnobbing with the basest prurience, there was no pill that it would not swallow if it were gilded with sonorous rhymes and redundant words.
The summit of art was reached and the greatest pleasure was given when, most paradoxically, sexual immorality and Corneillian heroics could be combined.
Heroics are infectious: I caught the disease from you.
This departure from the polished heroics of Pope, which were ill-adapted to narrative subjects in spite of his successful translation of Homer, was hailed with delight by the younger poets.
A month ago, Rita would have gone into violent heroics at such a moment as this.
He spoke lightly, for heroics embarrassed him, as they did Carlos.
The first duty of heroics is to be of your own choosing.
Heroics and martyrdom," she snapped, and flung out of the room, leaving him perplexed and grave.
It is a mixture of pride and heroics very difficult for a well-meaning cousin like myself to cope with.
All these heroicswere rather hollow to her ear, though she did not doubt the man's sincerity towards himself, and his earnest mind to please her.
He had drunk deep of old songs, and of the heroics of the harp.
These are worse heroics than I have seen you in yet.
He's dead to the world; let him lie across your knees and listen to the governor's heroics of introduction to Baldwin," said Matthew as he settled the limp baby across my lap with his bobbing head on my arm.
Now here is your line of dispute, Cradd, just as I said," exclaimed father, who had opened his leather treasure and been hunting through its pages even before my heroics had completely exploded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heroics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
