Read full poem →To the Right Honourable PHILIP, Earl of Pembroke and Mont-
gomery; Baron Herbert of Cardiff and Sherland; Lord Parr and Ross
Dictionary Entry
Worthy of respect; respectable.
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Common Phrases
member honourablegentleman honourablemembers honourablefriend honourable. honourableman honourablehonourable right
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Poetry examples for “honourable”
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Read full poem →that in pleading the cause of the poet Archias, he
makes the most honourable mention of that actor.
Read full poem →And yet to see her so benign,
So honourable and womanly,
In every maiden kindness mine,
Read full poem →The fiction of the Christian law
That all men honourable are;
And so her smile at once conferr’d
Read full poem →In Heaven, which God did there commend?
Are 'Honourable and undefiled'
The names of aught from heaven exiled?
Read full poem →So banish from true wisdom to prefer
Such squalid wit to honourable rhyme?
To write? To scribble? Nonsense and no more?
Read full poem →was that of a man cut off rigorously from the main life of the nation,
with every avenue of honourable ambition closed to him. He had to live
the starved, suspected life of a recusant or to seek service under a
Read full poem →Ere made the common brothels of the town.
There virgins honourable vows received,
But chaste, as maids in monasteries, lived.
Read full poem →reign of Henry V., Lord Cobham and many others being burned to death.
Thinking, perhaps, either of these too honourable and ancient a descent
for the English Presbyterians, our author next refers to Heylin, who