Read full poem →These colours are not dull and pale enough.
To shew a soul so full of misery
As this sad lady's was ; do it by me $
Dictionary Entry
A play, dance, or other entertainment.
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Poetry examples for “shew”
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Read full poem →Labourins in his eclipse, dark and prodigious
She shew d till now ? when having won his way.
How full of wonder he breaks out again
Read full poem →of silk against winter, that I go to dwell i’ the town.
I think my leg would shew in a silk hose.
Read full poem →RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE STAGE. XXlii
to be frequented ; the victory of sound and shew over
sense and reason was as complete in the theatre at this
Read full poem →Eossessed when living, and to fix the standard of their respective merits,
efore we shew the degree in which their united fame ought to be placed
on the British theatre.
Read full poem →I live in hell and several furies vex me.
Oh, carry me where never sun e'er shew*d yet
A face of comfort, where the earth is crystal.
Read full poem →“ Shew’d me good stock of scars, but none of cosh j
** No, not a doit — but still he vapoured much
Read full poem →Cob. What, Tib, shew this gentleman up to the
captain. [Tib shews Master Mat. into the house. ]
Read full poem →three first plays. Count Valore, Oriana, Clerimont, Valentine, and others
evidently shew.
Read full poem →into, and the vast variety of distinguished characters which they have so
admirably drawn, shew as strong powers of invention as the creation of
witches and raising of ghosts. Their deficiency therefore in magic is