Read full poem →'Tis hers the brave man's latest steps to trace,
Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace.
When interest calls off all her sneaking train,
Dictionary Entry
Something done, a deed.
In a Sentence
“an act of goodwill”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. acts
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Poetry examples for “acts”
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Read full poem →Which in their modest Whispers name
Those Acts that swell'd the Cheek of Fame.
Read full poem →Of our unhappy and unhallowed deed
I have raised a mausoleum of such acts
As in this world do honour unto me,
Read full poem →He stoop'd in all men's sight
To sordid flatteries, acts of strife,
And sunk in that dead sea of life,
Read full poem →Theocritus and Virgil; in RoUo has taken whole scenes from Seneca, and
almost whole acts from Lucan in The False One. I do not blame him for
tiiis, his imitations have not the stiffness, which sometimes appears (though
Read full poem →High crimes were still arraign' d; though they made shift
To prosper out yb^r acts, were plagu*d \\}i^ fifth:
All's safe, and wise ; no stiff affected scene, '
Read full poem →made the two last acts of the Chances almost new. Mr. Hart played the
Read full poem →“Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left band.”
—Acts xxi. 3.
Read full poem →Long hast thou loitered; greater works compile.
The subject hides thy wit; men's acts resound;
This thou wilt say to be a worthy ground.