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Heroical love's pedigree, power, extent; definition, part affected; tyranny
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Heroical love, religious love, &c. which may be reduced to a twofold division, according to the principal parts which are affected, the brain and liver.
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Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected.
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Heroical souls, who never would blench from a townsman's duties in peace or war;
The Frogs 2000
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They say the Lirick is larded with passionat Sonets, the Elegiack weeps the want of his mistresse, and that even to the Heroical, Cupid hath ambitiously climed.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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Britanna or a Garden of Heroical Devices (1612) is the most representative of the emblem books in English, although the later publications of Wither and Quarles enjoyed a longer popularity.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968
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Heroical Poem, which he performed even to admiration; and though he fell short in part of _Virgil_'s lofty style, yet went he beyond himself therein.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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And a little before, he calls him the most Renowned and Heroical
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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He was Accounted one of the exactest of Heroical Poets either of the
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Take one Taste more of his Poetry, in his sixth Book of that Heroical
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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