Read full poem →IV. v. 109, &c. _The_ pride _of aiming at more knowledge, and
pretending to more Perfections, the cause of Man's
error and misery. The_ impiety _of putting himself in
Dictionary Entry
To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
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. pretendingpretending whilepretending withoutpretending only
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Poetry examples for “pretending”
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Read full poem →many other poets whose poetic machinery consists in so great part of
pretending to know less than they do.
Read full poem →midwifery man, Sir Wrigsby Blane? Declaring that the demand for the
Vote was based on immorality, and pretending that once a month, till
they were fifty, and for several years _after_ they were fifty,
Read full poem →of her, plucked out her tongue by the roots to insure her silence,
and, pretending that she was dead, took in marriage the other sister,
Philomela. Procne, by means of a web, into which she wove her story,
Read full poem →Mark maiden-innocence a prey
To love-pretending snares:
This boasted Honour turns away,
Read full poem →Mark maiden-innocence a prey
To love-pretending snares;
This boasted honour turns away,
Read full poem →Mark maiden innocence a prey
To love-pretending snares,
This boasted honour turns away,
Read full poem →the Elizabethan drama was. I have given a
chapter to each of these points; not pretending
to cover the whole ground, or to do the work of
Read full poem →images. A poem, frigidly didactick, without rhyme, is so near to prose,
that the reader only scorns it for pretending to be verse.
Read full poem →I stood pretending to admire them while Buddy got a good footing
on the rough soil. While he kissed me I kept my eyes open and tried