Read full poem →toral, The Faithful Shepherdess, had been damned by its first night's
audience, Jonson says that they damned it for want of the vicious and
bawdy scenes which they had been accustomed to, and then breaks out in
Dictionary Entry
Violent, destructive and cruel.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “vicious”
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Read full poem →Of all his happiness? But soft: I hear
Some vicious fool draw near,
That cries, we dream, and swears there’s no such thing,
Read full poem →Of what inexorable cause
Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.
Read full poem →Where they were delving always and had been
Left always to be vicious and to grow.
Read full poem →For what is not returning,
The vicious and unfused ingredient
May give you qualms -- and one or two concerning
Read full poem →No bad example to his poets gave;
And they, not bad, but in a vicious age,
Had not, to please the prince, debauched the stage.
Read full poem →CHAPTER 21 -- The short continuance of friendship amongst the vicious,
which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction
Read full poem →subject. To sum up the whole in one sentence. When a poem, or a part of
a poem, shall be adduced, which is evidently vicious in the figures and
centexture of its style, yet for the condemnation of which no reason can
Read full poem →improvement in a particular poem, it is a sign of a general
improvement in taste. He wrote first according to the vicious taste
of an earlier time, and he then changed it according to his own
Read full poem →in a particular poem, it is a sign of a general improvement in taste. He wrote first ac-
cording to the vicious taste of an earlier time, and he then changed it according to his
own better taste. And of that better taste he was undoubtedly a prophet to others.