/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Poetical Justice
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That ideal justice which poets exercise in making the good happy, and the bad unsuccessful in their evil schemes.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.