a. (UN-1 7. Cf. prec.)

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a. 1746.  Holdsworth, Remarks Virgil (1768), 270. Ruæus’s interpreting … is very unpoetical.

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1776.  Mickle, Camoens’ Lusiad, Introd. 149. A loose unpoetical paraphrase of the Lusiad.

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1812.  Examiner, 4 May, 284/1. The unpoetical lucubrations of Lord Coke.

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1861.  Paley, Æschylus (ed. 2), Persians, 547. The superlative is here tame and unpoetical.

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