Read full poem →was published in 1736. The series was not finished till 1742, when the
fourth book of the Dunciad was added to the Poems, and the Swift
Correspondence to the Letters. Some of the volumes were reprinted, and
Dictionary Entry
(not used in the plural) The person or thing in the fourth position.
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Poetry examples for “fourth”
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Read full poem →Not like a king : three days he feasted us,
And on the fourth I spake of why we came,
And my betroth’d. “You do us, Prince,” he said,
Read full poem →England’s great poet. A second edition followed in 1848, a third
in 1845, a fourth in 1846, and a fifth in 1848. Then came The
Princess: A Medley, 1847; a second edition, 1848; In Memoriam,
Read full poem →In the third, just at present I'm studying ancient marbles;
In the fourth, I consider I owe my life to my country;
In the fifth--I forget, but four good reasons are ample.
Read full poem →The epithet delighted in the fourth line is extremely beautiful, as it carrier
on the fine antithesis between the joys of life and the horrors of death.
Read full poem →tow’rd the mess. He writes to me of a brace, and
here’s one, that’s three : O, for a fourth ! Fortune!
if ever thou’lt use thine eyes, 1 intreat thee
Read full poem →They are mine, the crowds of people at a Fourth of July
basket picnic, listening to a lawyer read the Declara-
Read full poem →soon after my birth and brought me to Louisville in my
fourth week, and here I have lived ever since.
Read full poem →‘‘Playa Del Este,via Hayti, July 4, (8.15a. m.). The
fleet under my command offers the nation as a Fourth of
July present, the destruction of the whole of Cervera’s
Read full poem →tives shall not choose a President whenever the right of
choice shall devolve upon tlem, befire the fourth day of
Mareh next following. then the Vice-President shall act as