Heroick

I think where the low Character is to be raised, the Heroick is the proper

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

Yet all History and every age exhibit Instances of patriotick virtue in the female Sex; which considering our situation equals the most Heroick of yours.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 June 1782, with a List of Articles wanted from Holland 1973

Pop-up large image of the British Alva, that Spirit which prompted from Prince William that Heroick reply, "that he would die in the last Ditch, e'er he would see his Countrys ruin," will cement an indissoluble bond of union between the united States of America and the united Provinces who from a similarity of circumstances have each arrived at Independance disdaining the

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 April 1781 1973

_Torquato Tasso_, the Prince of _Italian_ Heroick Poets, which for the

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

His romantic cast of mind is shown in his challenge to Lord Fairfax to follow 'the Examples of our Heroick Ancestors, who used not to spend their time in scratching one another out of holes, but in pitched

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

_Hero_, both of them _Heroick_, and to none ill edification.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Heroick or Lyricke, wherein it shall please her Maiestie to employ her penne, euen by as much oddes as her owne excellent estate and degree exceedeth all the rest of her most humble vassalls.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Noble Patron, never did any do it more to the height, or with greater art and elegance, if the highest of praises attributed to so Heroick a

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Such therefore as gaue them selves to write long histories of the noble gests of kings & great Princes, entermedling the dealings of the gods, halfe gods or _Heroes_ of the gentiles, & the great & waighty consequences of peace and warre, they called Poets _Heroick_, whereof _Homer_ was chief and most auncient among the Greeks, _Virgill_ among the Latines.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

The Ascension I confess should be left out, according to the common Rules of Heroick Poetry, but I had not the same reason of omitting it, as others have for not coming to the End of their History, a little short of which they generally stop, because after the main Business is over, nothing great remains, or however not greater than has already past.

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley