Again, in examining whether what has been said or done by some one is
poetically right or not, we must not look merely to the particular act or saying, and ask whether it is
poetically good or bad.
Although he happened to be bubbling over with good spirits, Stepan Arkadyevitch immediately and quite naturally fell into the sympathetic,
poetically emotional tone which harmonized with her mood.
The spirits of the company being somewhat damped by this embarrassing line of conduct on the part of their host, nothing more was said for a long time; but at length Mr Cobb took upon himself to remark, as he rose to knock the ashes out of his pipe, that he hoped Joe would thenceforth learn to obey his father in all things; that he had found, that day, he was not one of the sort of men who were to be trifled with; and that he would recommend him,
poetically speaking, to mind his eye for the future.
On the left of his great leader sat the poetic Snodgrass, and near him again the sporting Winkle; the former
poetically enveloped in a mysterious blue cloak with a canine-skin collar, and the latter communicating additional lustre to a new green shooting-coat, plaid neckerchief, and closely-fitted drabs.
Even Margaret shrank from it, and contented herself with stroking her good aunt's hand, and with meditating, half sensibly and half
poetically, on the journey that was about to begin from King's Cross.
Two horned, downy nets rose from below the tail, that prolonged the long light feathers of admirable fineness, and they completed the whole of this marvellous bird, that the natives have
poetically named the "bird of the sun."
This Mr Swiveller gave them--faithfully as regarded the wishes and character of the single gentleman, and
poetically as concerned the great trunk, of which he gave a description more remarkable for brilliancy of imagination than a strict adherence to truth; declaring, with many strong asseverations, that it contained a specimen of every kind of rich food and wine, known in these times, and in particular that it was of a self-acting kind and served up whatever was required, as he supposed by clock-work.
She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine; less
poetically speaking, she showed both gentleness and strength, an indefinable promise of soft maternity blending with her evident fitness for honest labor.
Cabbage salad is a horrid invention, but I don't doubt its utility as a means of encouraging thoughtfulness; nor will I quarrel with it, since it results so
poetically, any more than I quarrel with the manure that results in roses, and I give it to Irais every day to make her sing.
Mr Riderhood
poetically remarking that he would pick the bones of his night's rest, in his wooden chair, sat in the window as before; but, as before, watched the sleeper narrowly until he was very sound asleep.
After a pause he began to speak
poetically of the scenery and to offer her loverlike speeches and compliments.
Her white and slender fingers, her pearly neck, her cheeks tinted with varying hues reminded one of the lovely Englishwomen who have been so
poetically compared in their manner to the gracefulness of a swan.