Poets

Examples

• It is only a hostile average-sensual-man background against which the philosophers and poets stand out. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The popular poets got to work in this fashion: Thou king of satyrs . H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The obscurities of early Greek poets arose necessarily out of the state of language and logic which existed in their age. Plato. The Republic.
• He pretended that the greatest poets must, when they first began to write, have committed as many faults as he did. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Plato does not seriously intend to expel poets from life and society. Plato. The Republic.
• What the poets and story-tellers say--that the wicked prosper and the righteous are afflicted, or that justice is another's gain? Plato. The Republic.
• For they are not ignorant of antiquity like the poets, nor are they afraid of their enemies, nor is any madman a friend of theirs. Plato. The Republic.
• The sheiks of the tribes, under a king of the poets, sat in judgment and awarded prizes; the prize songs were sung through all Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Have you any poets, painters, sculptors? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Or, after all, they may be in the right, and poets do really know the things about which they seem to the many to speak so well? Plato. The Republic.
• Nor is it strange that latter-day research should confirm so many sayings of the poets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That is what mighty cities declare; and the children of the gods, who were their poets and prophets, bear a like testimony. Plato. The Republic.
• To revive the ancient government you must have the ancient patriots, poets, and scholars. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But they did not; and therefore we may infer that Homer and all the poets are only imitators, who do but imitate the appearances of things. Plato. The Republic.
• It is only eccentric poets and narrow specialists who lock the doors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Other artists as well as poets should be warned against meanness or unseemliness. Plato. The Republic.
• And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Only from the poets, who acknowledge that they may be appeased by sacrifices. Plato. The Republic.
• Are not the tragic poets wise who magnify and exalt the tyrant, and say that he is wise by association with the wise? Plato. The Republic.
• These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul, and lifted it to heaven. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The old poets, and in later time the tragedians, showed no want of respect for the family, on which much of their religion was based. Plato. The Republic.
• It had already found expression in the work of such young poets as Tennyson, who had glanced down the vista of the future. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Prosers, methought, require an education; But poets gain, by birth, their own vocation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The poets, as he says in the Protagoras, were the Sophists of their day; and his dislike of the one class is reflected on the other. Plato. The Republic.
• I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the a?rial creations of the poets. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Imitation is only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic poets, whether they write in Iambic or in Heroic verse, are imitators in the highest degree? Plato. The Republic.
• Poets and painters have adorned it; and in its manufacture have been embodied through all ages the choicest discoveries of the chemist, the inventor and the mechanic. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This inclination, it is true, is suppressed by a little reflection, and only takes place in children, poets, and the antient philosophers. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He decorated his court with poets, playwrights, philosophers, and scientific men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He also declares that if his life were to be twice as long he would have no time to read the lyric poets. Plato. The Republic.

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