Read full poem →work. He poured contempt on those who frittered life away. He urged on
the poetasters and the mincing courtiers, who set their hearts on
top-knots and affected movements of their lips and legs:—
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Poetry examples for “mincing”
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Read full poem →And gesturing largely-to the very moon of Easter,
Mincing his steps, and swishing the jubilant grass,
And beheading some field-flowers that had come to pass,
Read full poem →Some wheeled in smirking pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
Read full poem →In lordly study. Every day, I found
Man proved a gobbet in my mincing world.