Read full poem →The false caresses, and undoing smiles. 50
Ah, Princess! learn'd in all the courtly arts,
To cheat our hopes, and yet to gain our hearts.'
Dictionary Entry
The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
In a Sentence
“There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.”
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Common Phrases
. artscouncil artscenter artsarts finearts liberalarts performingarts visualarts language
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Poetry examples for “arts”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →much farther by Reason, v.128. IV. Of that which is called the State of
Nature, v.144. Reason instructed by Instinct in the invention of Arts,
v.166, and in the Forms of Society, v.176. V. Origin of Political
Read full poem →To charm the mistress, or to fix the friend.
He, with a hundred arts refined,
Shall stretch thy conquests over half the kind;
Read full poem →Smit with the love of sister-arts we came,
And met congenial, mingling flame with flame;
Read full poem →Oh just beheld and lost! admired and mourn'd!
With softest manners, gentlest arts adorn'd!
Blest in each science, blest in every strain!
Read full poem →Dorset, the grace of courts, the Muses' pride,
Patron of arts, and judge of nature, died.
The scourge of pride, though sanctified or great,
Read full poem →No conquests she, but o'er herself, desired,
No arts essay'd, but not to be admired.
Passion and pride were to her soul unknown,
Read full poem →7 The love of arts lies cold and dead
In Halifax's urn;
Read full poem →How quickly all the sex pursue!
See, madam, see the arts o'erthrown
Between John Overton and you!
Read full poem →With honest scorn the first famed Cato view'd
Rome learning arts from Greece, whom she subdued: 40
Your scene precariously subsists too long