Read full poem →Others on earth o'er human race preside,
Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide:
Of these the chief the care of nations own,
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Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
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Poetry examples for “actions”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To show thou hast been long,
Not liv'd; for life doth her great actions spell,
By what was done and wrought
Read full poem →Sidney. He also he wrote. Plays confuted in five
Actions; proving that they are not to be suffered in a
Christian commonwealth; dedicated to Sir Francis
Read full poem →But he greatly miscalls it, for that they were bom in iuch a year, and died in such a one, is all
he has given us of tlieir history and actions j and by what 1 can find, had they never wrote a
comedy, we should not have known^ but upon )lr. Shirley's word, that in conversation they
Read full poem →With moral rules, and policy collects
Out of all actions done these fourscore year;
Accounts the time of every odd[483] event,
Read full poem →us not be continually astonished should
from their actions and speeches
sawdust perpetually leak
Read full poem →Which was not also holy, yet did come
”wixt sacramental actions:—brother-
hood,
Read full poem →they were fifty, and for several years _after_ they were fifty,
women were not responsible for their actions, because of what he
vaguely called 'physiological processes.' What poisonous rubbish!
Read full poem →Religious Zeal of Cortes ; Discontent of the Mexicans ; Dangerous Position of the Spaniards ; Trans-
actions at the Court of Spain ; Velasquez dispatches an Expedition against Cortes ; Cortes marches
against Narvaez ; Defeats and takes him Prisoner ; His Politic Conduct after Victory ; His Forces
Read full poem →Swearing by all her lucky powers of fate.
Which like as footboys on her actions wait.
That fortune's scale should to my sorrow turn,
