poetize

Example Sentences

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I agree, my master, that 'tis better to philosophize and poetize, to blow the flame in the furnace, or to receive it from carry cats on a shield.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The episodes, and the hard characters, and the partly imaginary characters, you had 246 your liberty in; and you have used them well to suffuse and flavor and poetize the story.

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Now thus to poetize the tragedy of one's own life is fatuous; it is like enjoying one's dizziness on the brink of a precipice, or the pangs of sickness without seeking a remedy.

From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton

The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty.

From England's Antiphon by MacDonald, George

He had been touched with the prevailing romanticism; he had written hymns like Manzoni, and, like Carrer, he sought to poetize the traditions and superstitions of his countrymen.

From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by Howells, William Dean