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Meanings of poetical justice in English

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Usage of poetical justice in English
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This is a peculiarly felicitous instance of what is called poetical justice.
The Innocents Abroad
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His justice is all poetical justice, exactly what justice should be.
De profundis
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There are often in real life instances of what is called poetical justice.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02 / Popular Tales
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There would be, he fancied, a certain poetical justice in such an issue.
David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales
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This is, I think, a better line, besides its poetical justice.'
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 / With His Letters and Journals
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And the poetical justice of this appealed to him.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
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He then condemns the neglect of poetical justice, which is one of his favourite principles:-
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
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Vice in prosperity, and virtue in misfortune, are in the end set right by poetical justice.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
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He then condemns the neglect of poetical justice; which is always one of his favourite principles.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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The term " poetical justice" is one that may be most happily used in this respect.
The Annotated Lolita
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The Lilburnes of this hollow world are not to be pelted with the soft roses of poetical justice.
Night and Morning, Volume 5
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There's a sort of poetical justice-
A Set of Six
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It is thus that poetical justice endeavours, so far as it may, to anticipate the sentence of Omniscient justice.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 / With a P...
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There is a certain poetical justice in the proposition coming from those who have worked so much of the harm.
The Ways of Men
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He almost deserved his fate for barbarously mutilating a metrical Psalm, and was evidently a proper victim of poetical justice.
The Parish Clerk
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And then was poetical justice made complete; for who should appear before the helpless forts but Evertsen with a Dutch fleet!
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 / F...
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