Read full poem →Throughout these earlier poems there is a
wonderful combination of delicate sentiment,
wealth of fancy, graceful form, simplicity com-
Dictionary Entry
A general thought, feeling, or sense.
In a Sentence
“The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.”
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. sentimentsentiment publicsentiment religioussentiment popularsentiment national
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Poetry examples for “sentiment”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →thence sounding tneir virtues so loud that the dead awake ^nd are re-
animated to hear them. The close of the'sentiment is extremely in tho
spirit of Shakespeare and Milton ; the former says of a storm
Read full poem →lifiquent spirit: A change which totally loses the whole spirit of the poet's
original sentiment. These are su<3h mistakes that neither the most exten-
sive literature nor the accuracy of a Locke's judgment can secure a man
Read full poem →As these last quotations are not only specimens of dictiofi a,i\d sentiment^
but of patsions inflamed into poetic enthusiasm; I shall refer the reader to
Read full poem →and perplex the plot, and by that alone have succeeded and*pleased, with-
out perhaps a single life of nervous poetry, a single sentiment worthy of
memory, without a passion worked up with natural vigour, or a character
Read full poem →["The following lines from a correspondent--besides the deep, quaint
strain of the sentiment, and the curious introduction of some
ludicrous touches amidst the serious and impressive, as was doubtless
Read full poem →[“The following lines from a correspondent-besides the deep, quaint strain
of the sentiment, and the curious introduction of some ludicrous touches
amidst the serious and impressive, as was doubtless intended by the
Read full poem →of an observant and enthusiastic traveller who had lived under Eastern
skies, and had come within ken of Eastern life and sentiment.
Read full poem →purposes of reference; but it is improbable, though not impossible, that
in the revolution of taste and sentiment, moribund or extinct poetry
will be born again into the land of the living. Poetry which has never
Read full poem →States, in the East Indies. He was "the glass of fashion ... the
observ'd of all observers," the swayer of sentiment, the master and
creator of popular emotion. No other English poet before or since has