Read full poem →its way into the world. An imperfect copy having been offer'd to a
Bookseller, you had the good-nature for my sake to consent to the
publication of one more correct: This I was forc'd to, before I had
Dictionary Entry
Voluntary agreement or permission.
In a Sentence
“Writers often choose consent when discussing complex ideas.”
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Origin
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Poetry examples for “consent”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →What th«y above cannot pfevent, foretell ;
Or the great world do by consent presage,
A.B boilow seas with fmure tempests rage ;
Read full poem →By purest innocence confined
Unconscious free consent.
Persuasive power of vernal change,
Read full poem →But for the steady fore-sense of a freer and larger existence,
Think you that man could consent to be circumscribed here into action?
But for assurance within of a limitless ocean divine, o’er
Read full poem →which i may rather term borrowed, for that play miscarrying in the
action, I suppose they made use of it with Ben's consent.
Read full poem →You may here find passions raised to that excellent pitch, and by such
insinuating degrees, that you shall not choose but consent, and go along
with them, finding yourself at last grown insensibly the very same person
Read full poem →comedies ana tragedies were presented on the stage, the actors omitted
some scenes and passages (with the authors' consent) as occasion led them;
and when private friends desired a copy, they then (and justly too) tran-
Read full poem →Cka. Why then, as the last token of my full consent and approbation, I give you my hand.
Ant. There's mine.
Read full poem →My sick heart sank. Then he: He gave
His glad consent, if I could get
Her love. A dear, good Girl! she’d have
Read full poem →The blazon which the devils desired to gain;
And God, for their confusion, laugh'd consent;
Yet did so far relent,