Read full poem →** of no less mirth and felicity than John Heywood,
“ but of much more skill and magnificence in his
** metre, and therefore wrote for the most part to the
Dictionary Entry
Grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor
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. magnificencemagnificence great
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Poetry examples for “magnificence”
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Read full poem →great architect Inigo Jones being frequently employed
to furnish decorations with all the magnificence of
his invention. The king and his lords, the queen
Read full poem →himself, Books III, IV, V, and VI, of man's relation to his fellow-man.
Prince Arthur, the personification of Magnificence, by which Spenser means
Magnanimity (Aristotle's [Greek: megalopsychia]), is the ideal of a perfect
Read full poem →Prince Arthur Magnificence, or Protestantism, or Lord Leicester
Private Virtue the Church Militant
Read full poem →When we surprised him in the summer time,
With what superb magnificence and ease
He sinned enough to make the day sublime!
Read full poem →Opened again, and from without, in shone
A new magnificence. On oozy throne
Smooth-moving came Oceanus the old,
Read full poem →For suddenly, and otherwhence,
I looked on your magnificence.
I saw the stillness and the light,
Read full poem →So, for their sakes I loved, ere I go hence,
And the high cause of Love's magnificence,
And to keep loyalties young, I'll write those names
Read full poem →Fear and ambition, urge her to compliance;
Dress'd in each charm of gay magnificence,
Alluring grandeur courts her to his arms,
Read full poem →mechanicks; so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and
the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence, if they are conveyed by
words used commonly upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar