diligently

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There arrives, in the case of one who has practised poetical expression diligently, a wonderful sense of freedom, of expansiveness, of delight, when he begins to use what has been material for poetry for the purposes of prose.

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  1. With diligence, or steady application and care; with industry or assiduity; not carelessly; not negligently. Being by this Means in the King's Eye, he so diligently carried himself that he soon got into the King's Heart. Baker, Chronicles, p. 261. Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God. Deut. vi. 17. For all Paul's miracles, the Jews studied the scripture the diligenterly, to see whether it were as he said or no. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 98.

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