Read full poem →tempered minds, unless offered with those soothing and com,
pliant approaches which made the poet, for stance, characterise
agreeable things in general by a word expressive of a grateful
Dictionary Entry
The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
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Poetry examples for “approaches”
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Read full poem →further survey finding that he himself was a fortress, inaccessible
on every quarter to the approaches of corruption, he professed a
particular friendship to Phocion’s son-in-law, Charicles. And
Read full poem →But burning like eternal fire,
Is yet not of approaches bold,
Which gay dramatic tastes admire.
Read full poem →a short cessation restored his powers, and he was again able to talk with
his former vigour. The approaches of this dreadful malady he began to
feel soon after his uncle’s death; and, with the usual weakness of men so
Read full poem →and the whole is too remote from known life to raise either grief,
terror, or indignation. The _Revenge_ approaches much nearer to human
practices and manners, and therefore keeps possession of the stage; the