The evolutions of the parade; the tumult of the battle; the flourish of old heroic
music, heard thirty years before -- such scenes and sounds, perhaps, were all alive before his intellectual sense.
I floated along under the spell of enchantment, as if I had been transported to an heroic
age, and breathed an atmosphere of chivalry.
But we are not used to looking upon farming as a heroic
The next instant he was out, and "going on" like an Indian; yelling, laughing, chasing boys, jumping over the fence at risk of life and limb, throwing handsprings, standing on his head -- doing all the heroic
things he could conceive of, and keeping a furtive eye out, all the while, to see if Becky Thatcher was noticing.
Tom said it was tough to have to keep mum now; said we would be heroes if we could come out and tell all we knowed; but after all, it was still more heroic
to keep mum, there warn't two boys in a million could do it.
I shook my head: I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind; and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women I saw sometimes nursing their children or washing their clothes at the cottage doors of the village of Gateshead: no, I was not heroic
enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.
And really I felt that she was a noble woman - the sort of woman who might have been a Roman matron, and done all manner of heroic
things, in times of public trouble.
And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardning in his strength Glories: For never since created man, Met such imbodied force, as nam'd with these Could merit more then that small infantry Warr'd on by Cranes: though all the Giant brood Of PHLEGRA with th' Heroic
Race were joyn'd That fought at THEB'S and ILIUM, on each side Mixt with auxiliar Gods; and what resounds In Fable or ROMANCE of UTHERS Son Begirt with BRITISH and ARMORIC Knights; And all who since, Baptiz'd or Infidel Jousted in ASPRAMONT or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or MAROCCO, or TREBISOND, Or whom BISERTA sent from AFRIC shore When CHARLEMAIN with all his Peerage fell By FONTARABBIA.
Less obstinate, and even less dangerous combats, have been described in good heroic
verse; but that of Gurth and the Miller must remain unsung, for want of a sacred poet to do justice to its eventful progress.
She wanted him to be heroic
in his conversation; and he would not.
If there were not so many of them," said the curate, "they would be more relished: this book must be weeded and cleansed of certain vulgarities which it has with its excellences; let it be preserved because the author is a friend of mine, and out of respect for other more heroic
and loftier works that he has written.
Thus the older poets were distinguished as writers of heroic
or of lampooning verse.