Read full poem →To the nearest inn, and chose with care
As much as his thin purse could bear.
As rapt-souled monks watch over the baking
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As much as; however much; although; even though.
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Poetry examples for “much as”
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Read full poem →Not that I greatly regret it, for dear Georgina distinctly
Wishes for nothing so much as to show her adroitness. But, oh, my
Pen will not write any more;--let us say nothing further about it.
Read full poem →Roman Republic to me, or I to the Roman Republic?
Why not fight?--In the first place, I haven't so much as a musket;
In the next, if I had, I shouldn't know how I should use it;
Read full poem →Some others, also, to themselves,
Who scarce so much as doubt it,
Think there is none, when they are well,
Read full poem →for Goliah. To a hard-headed phlegmatic reader all tha
is nothing ; he travels you through a quarto, much as a
hack horse goes over his beaten road ! but to the light-
Read full poem →a surprising compass of literature: Fletcher was a polite rather than a
deep scholar^ and conversed with men at least as much as with books.
Hence the gay sprigktliness and natural ease of his young gentleman are
Read full poem →his political conduct. This controversy produced as
much as could be wished for from it. Mr. Cibber ob-
serves, the calling our dramatic writers to this strict
Read full poem →air and spirit, that the painters confessed it was not easy to express him :
As much as could be, you have here, and the graver hath done his part.
Read full poem →The reader will find many excellent things in this last class, for the
plays of our authors do not differ from each other near so much as those
of Shakespeare. The three last tragedies are detruded so low on account
Read full poem →Surpassing those our dwarfish age up-rears.
As much as Greeks, or Latins, thee in years :
Thy ocean fancy knew nor banks nor damms;