Read full poem →III. v. 77, &c. _That it is partly upon his_ ignorance _of_ future
_events, and partly upon the_ hope _of a_ future
Dictionary Entry
In part, or to some degree, but not completely.
In a Sentence
“they partly finished the house so they could move in before winter; the car was partly visible in the garage”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “partly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Stayed a week, saw me often; departed, and whither I know not.
Great is Fate, and is best. I believe in Providence partly.
What is ordained is right, and all that happens is ordered.
Read full poem →may be a fragment of _The Maiden's Holiday,_ a lost comedy, which is
said to have been written partly by Marlowe.--DYCE
Read full poem →And what the world had left of him
Was partly an unholy guile.
Read full poem →So kindly that its wrath went out--
Or partly out. Say what they would,
He seemed the more to court their candor;
Read full poem →Prospero’s nature— in the dramatist’s intention— has not been soured
partly by his failure with the education of Caliban— “on whom my
paines Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost . . .”
Read full poem →Gray’s Inn at the end of the year. Lovers Labour Lost is peculiar m
everything, partly because a great part of the end of the only version
we have was rewritten by the poet about 1598. But the diverse
Read full poem →And watched his hour, to close the keeper's eyes.
With much ado, he partly kept awake;
Not suffering all his eyes repose to take;
Read full poem →Plutarch's _Artaxerxes_, Langhorne's Translation, 1838, p. 699), was
introduced partly to pacify the Countess Guiccioli, who had quarrelled
with him for maintaining that "love was not the loftiest theme for true
Read full poem →" Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson.
Balderdash, partly (it would appear) intended as burlesque.
