The generalisations of science had often a great poetical suggestiveness; but he had no vestige of the scientific temper which is content to deduce principles from patient and laborious investigation.
But he came to the conclusion that it was not there, and that the painter achieved his results only by being able to represent with incredible fidelity the things in nature that held the poetical quality.
He saw that his own concern must be with the emotions and the hearts of his fellows, rather than with their minds; that if he possessed any qualities at all, they were of a poetical kind.
In Plato he found the philosophical method suffused by a burning poetical imagination; and he thought that Plato solved far more metaphysical riddles by a species of swift intuition than ever could be done by the closest analysis.
There were in Hugh's own memory a few places and a few houses, where by some happy fortune the hours had always been touched with this poetical quality, and into which no touch of dreariness had ever entered.
His mind had been always of a loose, poetical type, turning to the quality of things rather than to outward facts or practical questions.
On the other hand he had a friend of real poetical genius, who was also an artist, but who could only produce the stiffest and hardest works of art, that had no quality about them except the quality of tiresome definiteness.
Such doctrines, for instance, as prayers to saints for their intercession, or the efficacy of Masses for the dead, seem to me to have a certain poetical beauty about them, but to be contrary both to reason and experience.
It is only amongst an imaginative people that such a notion could have originated; and indeed there is something highly poetical in the conception.
But in addition to this perfect command over the language, Buchanan had a rich vein of poetical feeling, and much originality of thought.
Dryden described him under the character of Zimri in the celebrated lines in Absalom and Achitophel (to which Buckingham replied in Poetical Reflections on a late Poem .
His daughter, Charlotte Brooke, published The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke in 1792, but was able to supply very little biographical material.
A rhyming elegy on Brooke, published in Huth's Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, brings charges of extreme penuriousness against him, but of his generous treatment of contemporary writers there is abundant testimony.
The poet of the future may return to his greater calling of the prophet or teacher; indeed, we hardly know what may not be effected for the human race by a better use of the poetical and imaginative faculty.
That men drink more of the waters of forgetfulness than is good for them is a poetical description of a familiar truth.
But I have not space to say what were the items in the long and splendid procession of poetical symbols that came pouring out.
The Series will extend to fourteen volumes, the first of which, now before us, preceded by a poetical dedication and autobiographical memoir.
For a poet to refuse his glass was to me a phenomenon; and I confess I doubted in my own mind, and doubt to this day, if perfect sobriety and transcendent poetical genius can exist together.
We can all cordially approve the poetical exclamation of a distinguished Englishman: 'Oh!
To use a poetical phrase, Marengo now became the "cynosure of every eye.
Will you believe me, when I tell you that all this immense tract is a wilderness--a howling wilderness, if you like a poetical name?
Homer, poetical index to Pope's translation of the Iliad, 21.
There is a curious poetical index to the Iliad in Pope's Homer, referring to all the places in which similes are used.
He anticipated Ovid in recalling the stories of Greek mythology to a second poetical life.
It is different with the poetical constructions and Graecisms, which appear on every page.
Alone among the older writers he was endowed with the gifts of a poetical imagination and animated with enthusiasm for a great ideal.
In the form of his poem he followed a Greek original; and the stuff out of which the texture of his philosophical argument is framed was derived from Greek science; but all that is of deep human and poetical meaning in the poem is his own.
Laube's dramas are not remarkable for originality or for poetical beauty; their real and great merit lies in their stage-craft.
It is written with the force and fervour of extreme youth and with the literary ambition of a race as yet new to the discipline of intellectual culture, and is characterized by rhetorical rather than poetical imagination.
The most remarkable poetical product of the time is the long-neglected astrological poem of Manilius which was written at the beginning of Tiberius's reign.
Composition, though necessarily employed, was kept within narrow limits, and the words thus produced have a sharply defined meaning, wholly unlike the poetical vagueness of some of the Greek compounds.
Among his poetical characteristics we may place the extensive list of words which are found for the first time in his works and in those of Virgil or Ovid, and perhaps his common use of concrete words for collective, e.
But this archaic tinge is adopted only for poetical purposes, and as a proof of his devotion to the earlier masters of his art; it does not affect the general substance of his style, which is of the freshest and most vigorous stamp.
See Layamon's Brut, or a Chronicle of Britain; a Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of the Brut of Wace; .
The powerful poetical force which for half a century continued to be the strongest force in literature, and which created masterpieces of art and genius, first revealed itself in the latter part of the Ciceronian age.
Poetical and prosaic phrases, Graecisms, solecisms, jingling assonances, quotations and coinages apparently on the spur of the moment, all appear in this wonderful medley.
Sophy at first calls it "my mark," but she speedily adopts Monsieur le Marquis's more poetical term, and by that description it is known throughout her subsequent career.
He calls the ideas archetypes, and allows that the objects may participate in them; yet are these onlypoetical metaphors.
Yet this is so indefinite that Aristotle properly says that to talk in this way is only to use poetical metaphors.
His first poetical efforts had been translations from Byron, of whom he was an ardent admirer, and in 1826 he published a collection of original Academische Idyllen, which had some success.
These qualities continued to characterize Leopardi's poetical writings throughout his life.
If Pasquale's statements were at variance with other poetical versions of the story, they were, as might be expected, still more so with the prose authorities.
There is also a certain mechanical finish throughout the design, which renders it far less poeticalthan the great French cathedrals.
Often would these princely and lordly Crusaders charm the tediousness of a long pilgrimage bypoetical relaxations and remembrances.
Carried away by his poetical enthusiasm, he swore to go, clad in shining steel, to the extremities of the world, and to drink from a brazen helmet the waters of the Xanthus and the Indus.
The preachings, or rather the poetical inspirations of some writers of the time, announced to all Europe the deliverance of the East.
We hear their voices constantly mingling with those of the preachers of the holy wars, and find their poetical fictions everywhere confounded with the narrations of history.
The poetical sites of Greece, which the love of letters rendered so familiar to the studious class, were for us like places in which we had passed our infancy.
To us the whole neighbourhood is hallowed by a thousandpoetical associations, and we never journey through it without feeling as if we were living again amid the past.
We would rather the old church with the poetical name had been rebuilt on the ancient Hawthorn Mount than this.
But though many of these old cries are heard no more, there is still many a poetical association thrown around this busy neighbourhood.
Among the many readers of good books, there will always be some whose notions of the poetical proprieties suffer greatly by the facts of Keats's history.
With the exception of Byron, he was perhaps less of a recluse than any of his poetical contemporaries.
Whether this meant in working out ideas of his own, or living over the thoughts of other poets, is of little importance; the remark shows how deeply the roots of his life were imbedded in poetical soil.
Keats, with all his feeling of certainty, stood with head uncovered before that power which gives poetical gifts to one, and withholds them from another.
His poetical life, both in the receptive and productive phases of it, was intense.
They might boast contemptuously of favours behind their charmers' backs, while professing a most poeticaladmiration to their faces.
As a contrast to all such doctrines I may quote the sublime opening of the poetical account of creation in Psalm civ.
The poetical parts of the Bible, and especially the book of Job, which is probably the most ancient of the whole, abound in references to the atmosphere and its phenomena.
It may be an allegorical orpoetical mythus, not intended to be historical, but either devised for some extraneous purpose, or consisting of the conjectures of some gifted intellect.
David, in the 104th Psalm, which is a poetical paraphrase of the history of creation, speaks of the Creator as "stretching out the heavens as a curtain.
We shall find that the writers of the Scriptures had themselves much clearer views, and that, even in poetical language, they take no such liberties with truth.
I recognize in all these mere poetical figures, not intended to be literally understood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poetical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
