heroical

• “The last object that ties man and man, is comeliness of person, and beauty alone, as men love women with a wanton eye: which κατ 'ἐξοχὴν is termed heroical, or love-melancholy.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “The part affected in men is the liver, and therefore called heroical, because commonly gallants.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “But if anything be already said in the defence of sweet poetry, all concurreth to the maintaining the heroical, which is not only a kind, but the best, and most accomplished kind of poetry.”

  English literary criticism

• “But if anything be already said in the defense of sweet poetry, all concurreth to the maintaining the heroical, which is not only a kind, but the best and most accomplished kind of poetry.”

  The Defense of Poesy

• “The son of this heiress was the 'heroical' Lord Audley who so greatly distinguished himself at the”

  Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts

• “a kind of heroical scorn he bid Aeneas take her, or with a milder farewell, let her go.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “How different from the manly and heroical poetry of Greece and Rome.”

  Chapter 5

• “How different from the manly and heroical poetry of Greece and Rome!”

  Chapter 6

• “The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Action and Political Action as a Two-Track Strategy for Opposing Obamacare

• “When every Mid-Autumn Festival came, the soldiers naturally missed their families but fought with heroical determination to drive off the aggressors.”

  Some Mid-Autumn Festival Stories

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