Read full poem →As Secretary for Foreign Tongues to the Council of State of the
Commonwealth, Milton saw much of Cromwell, and came under the influence
of his voice and manner. Whether the great general had ever taken note of
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Intoxicated, inebriated, or otherwise stupefied by an ingested mind-altering substance, typically alcohol; drunk.
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“He was arrested for driving under the influence.”
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Poetry examples for “under the influence”
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Read full poem →In Browning's early youth, while he was under the influence of Byron
and Pope, he found, at a bookstall, a stray copy of Shelley's _Daemon
Read full poem →argument (wanting only experience of life), and ar<
more under the influence of feelino: than men. The
track of reasoning which we have pointed out, Remsen^
Read full poem →health, is just as true. Let us, then, endeavor to use
this world as not abusing it. Under the influence of
Christian principle, let us cultivate a spirit of physical,