Read full poem →With a lighter but equally perfect touch
Marvell wrote such lines as "Ametas and
Dictionary Entry
(manner) In an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; evenly
In a Sentence
“All citizens are equally taxed.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
important equallywell equallytrue equally. equallydivided equallygood equally
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Poetry examples for “equally”
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Read full poem →of our author's comedies, but, as before hinted, there is a poetic sti/e often
equally proper and excellent even an the lowest drollery of comedy. Thus
when the jocose old Miramont in the Elder Brother catches austere solemn
Read full poem →Beaumont's share of the Maid's Tragedy, Philaster, and the King and no King, give him a
full rl^t to share equally with Fletcher the fame of a tragic poet ; and Wit without Money,
the ifice Valour, and the Little French Lawyer, raise his character equally high in comedy.
Read full poem →TO-NIGHT, grave sir, both my poor house and I
Do equally desire your company;
Not that we think us worthy such a guest,
Read full poem →and particularly the delicacy and tenderness of lovers' sentiments are
equally proper to poetry in (comedy as tragedy; in these things there is no
sort of real diflFerence between the two, andf what the Greeks and Latins
Read full poem →By thee deceived, by thee surprised am I,
For now I love two women equally:
Both are well favoured, both rich in array,
Read full poem →Being fit-broken with the crooked share,
And seeds were equally in large fields cast,
The ploughman's hopes were frustrate at the last.
Read full poem →They felt, with "Praise to God on high,
Goodwill to all else equally;"
The trials, duties, service, tears;
Read full poem →friends of the Treaty who conspired with its
enemies, are equally responsible for the destruc-
tion of the instrument itself. (Applause) It
Read full poem →drop so poisonous a one into any man’s hat. The critic’s ink may
suffer equally from too large an infusion of nutgalls or of
sugar. But it is easier to be generous than to be just, and we