Read full poem →How finish'd with illustrious toil appears
This small, well-polish'd gem, the work of years!
Dictionary Entry
Admired, distinguished, respected, or well-known, especially due to past achievements or noble qualities.
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men illustriousfamily illustriousnames illustrious. illustriousman illustriousdead illustrious
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Poetry examples for “illustrious”
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Read full poem →Queen in the Banqueting- House of Whitehall, at the marriage of the
illustrious Frederick and Elizabeth, Prince and Princess Palatine of the
Rhine.
Read full poem →Tis really surprising that all we know of two such illustrious authors as Mr. Beaumont
and Mr. Fletcher were is, lliat we know nothing. The composer of the following Preface,
Read full poem →a man? Why, my dear sir, that cameleopard is no other than
Antiochus Epiphanes, Antiochus the Illustrious, King of Syria,
and the most potent of all the autocrats of the East! It is true,
Read full poem →full set of seventeen: for Spenser had made the signal blunder of
omitting Lord Burleigh from the illustrious company of
dedicatees. To confuse matters further, a few copies contain a
Read full poem →It is a splendid institution and a monument to its WortpDWaR
illustrious founder. Arlts
That evening the editors were the special guests of Cyjyax
Read full poem →Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold
What power the charms of beauty had of old;
Read full poem →read with some particularity and attention the writings of the
illustrious dead, not entirely as partisans, or with the view to
dethroning other "Monarchs of Parnassus," they will divine the secret of
Read full poem →"Oft through thy fair domains, illustrious Peer,
In youth I roamed ...
Read full poem →In all their pleasures in my bosom rise.
See in the east th' illustrious king of day!
His rising radiance drives the shades away--