Read full poem →“ but of much more skill and magnificence in his
** metre, and therefore wrote for the most part to the
* f stage in. tragedy, and sometimes in comedy or in-
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Mostly; in general; usually
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“She talked about her kids, for the most part.”
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Poetry examples for “for the most part”
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Read full poem →FOR THE MOST PART FROM THE CHINESE
OF RIHAKU, FROM THE NOTES OF THE
Read full poem →He deals for the most part with literary poses and _clichés_, yet he
makes them a vehicle for the expression of his own very personal
Read full poem →The following poem was written, for the most part, amidst the scenes
which it attempts[b] to describe. It was begun in Albania; and the parts
Read full poem →Burns’ poetry falls into two main groups: English and Scottish. His
English poems are, for the most part, inferior specimens of conventional
eighteenth-century verse. But in Scottish poetry he achieved triumphs of
Read full poem →His rhymes are such as seem found without difficulty, by following the
sense; and are, for the most part, as exact, at least, as those of other
poets, though now and then the reader is shifted off with what he can
Read full poem →as natural for the man to be out of the circle of his household during
the day, as it is meritorious for the woman to remain for the most part
within it. But this subject involves points of consideration so numerous
Read full poem →the state of man in a twentieth-century society at war,
is written for the most part in an Anglo-Saxon metre
with careful alliteration; it uses a very wide vocabulary,
Read full poem →I would be read in your transcendent hour
When book and rhyme seem for the most part vain._