magnific

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He commenced the conversation in the most magnific style, and, as a sort of pioneering to his own vanity, he flattered me with such grossness!

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

He commenced the conversation in the most magnific style, and a sort of pioneering to his own vanity, he flattered me with such grossness!

From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James

One magnific pall Mantled in massive fold and fall His head, and coiled in snaky swathes About His feet; night's black, that bathes All else, broke, grizzled with despair, Against the soul of blackness there.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

May their magnific deeds create         A glow of sympathy Which shall increase till every chain Enslaving man be snapped in twain, And universal Freedom reign         In glorious majesty.

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

Thus far, in magnific strain, A young poet soothed his vein, But he had nor prose nor numbers, To express a princess' slumbers.—

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles