Read full poem →And latent metals innocently glow:
Approach! Great Nature studiously behold!
And eye the mine without a wish for gold.
Dictionary Entry
The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
In a Sentence
“Writers often choose approach when discussing complex ideas.”
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Origin
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Poetry examples for “approach”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To do the honours, and to give the word;
Tell at your levee, as the crowds approach,
To whom to nod, whom take into your coach,
Read full poem →Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest;
Thus at her felt approach, and secret might,
_Art_ after _Art_ goes out, and all is Night.
Read full poem →'See, sir, here's the grand approach,
This way is for his Grace's coach:
Read full poem →Across the town-wind's dusty scrolls,
And made the approach to the Market Square
A garden with smells and sunny air.
Read full poem →ford to the Antiquary and Historian ; whilst the data which they
present for tracing the gradual approach to existing manners, and of
comparing the habits of past times with those of the present, can
Read full poem →If I rightly remember, it happened on that afternoon when
Word of the nearer approach of a new Neapolitan army
First was spread. I began to bethink me of Paris Septembers,
Read full poem →You liked, then after, to apply
That liking, and approach so one the t'other
Till either grew a portion of the other:
Read full poem →You lik'd, then after, to apply
That liking; and approach so one the t'other
Till either grew a portion of the other;
Read full poem →Having thus given, we hope, pretty strong proofs of our authors excel-
lence in the sublime, and shewn how near they approach in splendor to the
5redt sun of the British Theatre ; let us now just touch on their comedies and