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Example sentences for "poetry and"

  • During the annual fair, where tribes from a distance are gathered for thirty days, a large part of the time is spent in a contest of poetry and eloquence.

  • The romantic, therefore, represents an enlargement of the domain of music, by the acquisition of provinces outside its boundaries, and belonging originally to the domains of poetry and painting.

  • Though some of his later plays are more carefully finished, in none of them are we so completely under the sway of poetry and romance as in these early works, written when Shakespeare first felt the thrill of mastery in his art.

  • The imagination of religion, contributing what Matthew Arnold called its "poetry and eloquence," does not submit itself to such canons as are binding upon theology or science, but exists and flourishes in its own right.

  • The differences of content that are in excess of factors of expectation remain as poetry and myth.

  • Nature seems to look on all fixed-up poetry and art as something almost impertinent.

  • Power, so important in poetry and war, is also first point of all in a winter steamboat, with long stretches of ice-packs to tackle.

  • Shall the mention of such topics as I have briefly but plainly and resolutely broach'd in the "Children of Adam" section of "Leaves of Grass" be admitted in poetry and literature?

  • Mr. Beecher is a man of great genius--full of poetry and pathos.

  • What do you regard as the greatest of all themes in poetry and song?

  • He should become familiar with the great poetry and fiction, with splendid and heroic deeds.

  • Poets, when they chose to give themselves up to poetry and to turn their backs on convention, were almost as well off then as now.

  • Their subjects are taken from the widest field, the figures of deities, tales from mythology, portraits, animal forms; like the coins they introduced as an undercurrent to the prosaic life of every day an element of poetry and imagination.

  • Among Englishmen the appreciation of art never has been and never can be as keen as the appreciation of poetry and philosophy.

  • The author had the strongest matter-of-fact imagination that ever existed, and wrote the oddest mixture of poetry and prose.

  • The difference between Emerson's poetry and that of the contemporaries with whom he would naturally be compared is that of algebra and arithmetic.

  • Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

  • It would be a pleasant and not a difficult task to trace the resemblances between Emerson's poetry and that of other poets.

  • The longest and most elaborate paper is that entitled "Poetry and Imagination.

  • Apollo and the Muses, and an inspiring source of poetry and song, with the oracle of Delphi and the Castalian spring on its slopes; it was conceived of by the Greeks as in the centre of the earth.

  • BRAGI, the Norse god of poetry and eloquence, son of Odin and Frigga; represented as an old man with a long flowing beard and unwrinkled brow, with a mild expression of face; received in Valhalla the heroes who fell in battle.

  • The real world had been to him for months something sickeningly narrow and empty, from which at times he had escaped with passion into a distant dream-life of poetry and history.

  • After an experience which had besmirched every ideal and bemocked every faith, the young Frenchman's talk had carried the lad once more into the full tide of poetry and romance.

  • My whole inventive faculty, my poetry and rhetoric, had pitched on this diseased spot, and threatened, precisely by means of this vitality, to involve body and soul into an incurable disorder.

  • By means of Local Centres membership is made active and effective, members meeting together intimately for the reading and study of poetry and co-operating with Headquarters in the general work of the Society.

  • The leading journal devoted to Poetry and Poets (old and new), and the cultivation of the Imagination.

  • But much confusion has been introduced into criticism by this contradistinction of Poetry and Prose, instead of the more philosophical one of Poetry and Science.

  • Poetry and I were side by side most of the time with Little Jim walking along behind us and with Little Tom Till and Circus and Dragonfly swishing on ahead of us.

  • Poetry and spindle-legged Dragonfly started building a snow man right in our front yard, while they waited for me and Mom to finish playing Alice in Wonderland.

  • I put on my boots at the door, said "Good-bye" to Mom and went swishing out through the snow to Poetry and Dragonfly.


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