Read full poem →common people admired his moderation and humanity, in not
trampling wantonly on an enemy whom he had overthrown, and
wiser men acknowledged his prudence and policy in not ex-
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destroyed wantonly. wantonlyattacked wantonlydestroy wantonlycruel wantonlykilled wantonly
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Poetry examples for “wantonly”
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Read full poem →erudition--the vein of sheer ugliness which runs through his work,
presenting details that seem merely and wantonly repulsive. The same
vein is apparent in the work of Chapman, of Jonson, and even in places
Read full poem →or vigorous intellect, is but half a man: hence it follows that to
subject the labouring classes to unnecessary labour is wantonly
depriving them of any opportunities of intellectual improvement; and
Read full poem →true greatness of his powers, were ineffectual to heal the wound thus
wantonly inflicted.
Read full poem →Chorus.—Sae rantingly, sae wantonly,
Sae dauntingly gaed he;
Read full poem →Which cries about our necks how we shall have less and less
Than we have now if we spend too wantonly?
Read full poem →As the perfumed tincture of the roses.
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: