| 单词 | versifier |
| 例句 | The master and his unlikely pupil started with simple rhymes and short passages from popular British versifiers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Because the Middle Ages valued tradition over originality, erudite versifiers sometimes devised poems in which every line was borrowed from some previous work of literature. Review | For fans of ‘Game of Thrones,’ a new novel set amid the War of the Roses 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Cohen’s appeal, especially as time went on, had to do with his melodies as well: He was more than just a versifier who picked up a guitar, though he was that too. Leonard Cohen’s impact: From the ’60s to indie rockers and beyond 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “Everyone in the world seems to be writing poems,” the poet Anne Sexton warned a fledgling versifier in 1965, “but only a few climb into the sky.” Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z What separates poets from mere versifiers is a quality of feeling based in experience. Ai, an Unflinching Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 2010-03-28T02:20:00Z A much less elegant truism can be traced back to hokey versifier Edgar A. Guest: “It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home.” Review | ‘Lives of Houses’ is a lovely book to savor while you’re stuck at home 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z He was a gifted versifier — even his harshest critics grant that at least — accomplished in just about every poetic form, and he was a formidable linguist. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: America’s No. 1 Literary Celebrity 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z As a hobby — or perhaps as a vehicle for unexpressed ambitions and frustrated desires — she attends a poetry workshop with other amateur versifiers. Review: From Israel, ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ a Drama About Poetry and Obsession 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z "These sites seem like pop-up businesses that will disappear," said Mason, the versifier. I CAME HERE WITH A COUPON ? DOES THE RESTAURANT VALUE ME? 2011-04-12T21:41:05Z Classicists, versifiers, an expert in Byzantine Greek and a translator of sacred Buddhist texts all helped set fiscal policy. A man for all seasons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z By age 14, he had decided to become a poet, inspired after a conversation with a fellow teen versifier who declared, “It is my profession.” Former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall dies in New Hampshire 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z A saint quoting the words of our most radical versifier. Muhammad Ali, the Political Poet 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It was with “Jane: A Murder” that Nelson went from being a versifier to being a writer who plays with prose and remakes the genre. Maggie Nelson’s Many Selves 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z He alone, among book reviewing, story writing, magazine editing versifiers, was solely a poet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Sass had a rival, or a professional descendant, in the father of a clever versifier H. S. Leigh. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z She had given this aspiring versifier the sack, and his long hair was no longer to be seen in the highly decorated apartment on Washington Square, South. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The phrases throw back a rather startling illumination on the sport of versifiers and the material of farce. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z A Provençal poet, called Marcabres or Marcabrus, has been placed among the versifiers, but none of his works bear the least similitude to the subject; and, moreover, the language itself is an objection. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z No philologist or linguist, I am yet an untiring walker and versifier: and really I think that few things are pleasanter than to walk and to versify. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z In the next note they treat him like a sophomore versifier whose lines have to be corrected. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z I have listened to many extempore versifiers, male and female, the most famous of our century. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Having regard to the fondness of the medi�val versifiers for rhyme, I feel tempted to suggest that the word may have been 'salma,' a word of unknown origin, which in Italian means corpse.... The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z But, rhythmically, the modern versifier has been a Cubist without quite comprehending it. Open Water 2011-10-14T02:00:31.043Z At a very early period he became a versifier; and among his precocious attempts was a prize poem, on Hope, which was inserted in the Lady's Magazine, then published by Mr. Wheeble. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z As a versifier Pisida is correct and even elegant; as a chronicler of contemporary events he is exceedingly useful; and later Byzantine writers enthusiastically compared him with, and even preferred him to Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z The poem contains a number of faulty lines,—lines of twelve, of eleven, and of eight syllables,—of which it is easy to suppose that a more sacredly commissioned versifier would not have been guilty. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z They know little of Burns who regard him as an aimless versifier—'the idle singer of an idle lay.' John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z An ingenious versifier, very popular in his own day, and now chiefly known by his Divine Emblems and a vol. of prose maxims entitled Enchiridion. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z In applying this golden rule it will be seen that there are no poets in Australia except the alleged humorous versifiers. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Indeed, many of the prose writers, as well as the versifiers, have found their best tribute to Niagara inspired by the mere sound of falling waters. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z The writer who is nothing more than a versifier is content with a description of the sights and sounds of the beach; but the poet looks further than this. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z Before the war, the versifier had been on the staff of a Brussels newspaper. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Byron was also in favour, Pope he maintained was no poet, only a versifier. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He has defects which might have proved fatal to an ordinary versifier; but his voluminous vein lies protected by his genius. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The distinction between the versifier and the poet, as pointed out by Aristotle and insisted upon by the Italians, became with the Pl�iade almost vital. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Such struggles of spirit in poets or artists have been too often made the subject of public study; nay, too often the theme of chaotic versifiers. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The sexual invert married the versifier son of the “Napoleon of Finance.” Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Only an occasional versifier in a critical or intellectual spirit grinds out a machine-made metre, every foot of which can be scanned according to rule. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z We might be curious to learn, with all these notions of the suitable, the weighty, the order of enditing, and the colours often awry, whether these versifiers had really any settled principles of criticism. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z "One may be a poet without versing," says Sidney, "and a versifier without poetry." A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Epigrams flourished in modern times after the Revival of Learning period, and all the Elizabethan versifiers tried their hand at them. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z “These sites seem like pop-up businesses that will disappear,” said Ms. Mason, the versifier. Wise for Some Restaurants, Coupons Are a Drain at Others 2011-04-12T22:39:30Z Immensely flattered by being suddenly lifted to the status of a priesthood, all the budding versifiers of France, who a generation earlier would have withered into insignificance, expanded into affluent and profuse blossom. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z At a later period, the days of Dryden and Pope, our versifiers were continually renovating his humour and his more elegant fictions. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Aneau is unable to appreciate the high and sublime conception of the poet's office which the Pl�iade first introduced into French literature; for him the poet is a mere versifier who amuses his audience. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z They also employed versifiers of repute to compose their libretti. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The versifier of philosophic subjects is in danger of producing a work neither interesting enough for the admirers of sentiment and imagination, nor sufficiently profound for philosophers. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Marquis was himself a versifier, and he shared to the full his wife's respect for letters. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z There is one little circumstance more which connects the humble name of this versifier with that of Chaucer. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Many of our great revue composers hammer out the tune first and then get some versifier to write words to it. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Ariosto was but second-rate among the Latin versifiers of his century. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z "Among the foremost of American versifiers when she touches the great passionate realities of life." Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z We should "laugh and be well," as enjoined by an old English versifier. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z I lay awake for hours that night, joyously piecing together bits of rhyme, but I was no versifier, and had to be content with prose. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z The most probable view seems to be that which assigns it to a versifier of small dramatic power in the latest days of Attic tragedy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z It was there that a common type of speech was formed, which, when the burghers of Central Italy began to emulate the versifiers of Palermo, furnished them with an established style. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z There was Denham, known as a versifier little inferior to Waller, and with such superior claims on the score of loyalty as to be considered worthy of knighthood and the first vacant post. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z The silly ideas and emotions about which versifiers get excited are often an index to their own moral and intellectual failing, as well as their aesthetic deficiency. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Not a great genius, not a lordly versifier, endowed with not one supreme gift, Boscan ranks as an unique instance in the annals of literature by virtue of his enduring and irrevocable victory. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The didactic writers of the time, no less than epic poets and sprightly versifiers, give full testimony to the prevalency of the offence. A Cursory History of Swearing Not only was a common language instituted in the Court of Frederick; but the metrical forms of subsequent Italian poetry were either fixed or suggested by the practice of these early versifiers. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z He was also, far more than Cowley, a wit of the new school; and, as a versifier, he practised, with no small reputation, the neat, lucid style introduced by Denham and Waller. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z What sad figures the versifiers of unimportant conceits make when confronted with the great poets who use their intellect. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He was a versifier at once prolific and drearily dull. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources At all events, the statute literally recites the “ugsome oaths” that are used by the old versifier. A Cursory History of Swearing In commending the curial and illustrious vernacular, as something distinct from the dialects, he was in truth praising the dialect of his own province, refined by the practice of polite versifiers. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Crude paraphrases of the Psalms, based on the Genevan Psalter, appeared from the hands of various versifiers and were used generally in the churches of England and Scotland. The Story of Our Hymns When they take the pen in hand and write a letter or keep a diary, they become poets no less than the versifier who puts his feelings down in patterned speech. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Dr. Kane was but an indifferent versifier; but some of the trifles in rhyme which he addressed to Margaret may well illustrate certain facts that I shall state at length hereafter. The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters The extent to which the bards of the middle ages, and those of one or two subsequent centuries, carried rhyme and alliteration seems marvellous to the English versifier. The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition It is not needful to pass in review the many versifiers who treated the old themes of chivalrous love with meritorious conventional facility. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The Puritan editors of this first attempt at American psalmody cared no more for poetic effect than did their brother versifiers across the waters. The Story of Our Hymns Men's souls are starving to be fed with poetry and the versifiers polish and file and chisel verses on themes that interest no one. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But M. de Banville was by no means only a clever versifier. A Short History of French Literature He was the most skilful versifier of his time. The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition So far as I know Mr. Moore has not expanded his theory to include a discussion of acrobats, revivalists, necromancers, free versifiers, camel drivers, paying tellers, painters, pugilists, architects, and opera singers. Interpreters He is one of those triflers called poets, me-thinks—a versifier, a scribbler of jingling rhymes. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 But the minor versifier has no soul, or if he has he keeps it out of his verses. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z While La Chaussée was a clever versifier and an adroit playwright, Diderot understood the theory both of poetry and of the theatre much better than he understood the practice. A Short History of French Literature The accustomed versifier himself will hardly bid it flow on, so often is it seen to flow back. London Impressions Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure We are groaning now over the inferior versifiers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 These strictures are intended to apply to versifiers in England as well as in America. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) It is manifestly absurd to crown with the name of poetry every petty emotion or description by some versifier, and deny it to the great dramatists who depict passions and color great ideas with emotion. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The latter, despite an unfortunate licence of subject, showed himself the strongest and most accomplished versifier who has made his appearance in France for the last twenty years. A Short History of French Literature He is not a ready versifier, and is compelled to alter a poem repeatedly before it receives his approbation. Methods of Authors If I may trust my understanding of your meaning, our modern versifiers have only made the simple discovery, that an appearance of antiquity is the cheapest passport to respect. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 Daniel struck at the root of all the principles of the classical versifiers,—the supreme authority of the classics. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He does, indeed, abound in the stock ideas which had served a hundred versifiers. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition He is a very careless versifier and rhymer, and his choice of language is far from exquisite. A Short History of French Literature The anxiety of the versifier is to be 139 safe: he tries to compose what will escape censure; he dreads the originality that may give offence. The Intellectual Life For it was a truly perceptive versifier who wrote the immortally simple lines: 'Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.' The Venus Trap Campion, like other classical versifiers, condemned rime as a barbarity; but in imitating the classical measures he does not violate the normal English accent, so that his verses read smoothly in English rhythm. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The retired statesman had a true taste for literature, but his efforts as a versifier had been limited to a dozen lines translated from Martial. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Hence, though he is the greatest versifier of Russia,—not poet, observe!—he is among the least of its writers. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy He was a fluent versifier, and would write 500 verses in one night. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Atta Troll's epitaph is a satirical imitation of the poetic effusions of Ludwig I, who considered himself a poet but was nothing more than an affected versifier. Atta Troll The “Cannery,” with its numbered shelves and jars, was a deterrent indeed, and anyone who ventured to relieve himself as “Vox Populi” or as a conventional versifier, did well to walk with care. The So-called Human Race The January of Pope is the production of a clever versifier. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The author of ‘Philoctetes’ and ‘Orestes,’ of ‘Rehearsals’ and ‘Searching the Net,’ is no mere versifier. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Here, then, we have a fresh pattern—a pattern, to speak grossly, of letters—which makes the fourth preoccupation of the prose writer, and the fifth of the versifier. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) While a young man, he tried several different forms of poetry in imitation of contemporary versifiers, and thus produced the poems which we are to discuss in this chapter. An Introduction to Shakespeare Whatever sins may be original with a versifier at least he has no excuse for an unmetrical line or an untrue rhyme. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers It is a bald, worthless production, with a few lines or couplets which seem to have proceeded from a more practised versifier than the novice who put together the bulk of the work. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Town has its charms for the versifier; there is much to say about its streets, its parks, its belles, its balls, its many diversions. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects For if the versifier is not bound to weave a pattern of his own, it is because another pattern has been formally imposed upon him by the laws of verse. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) You assure us he is not even a versifier, but steals the sound of his verses; now, to steal a sound is as ingenious as to paint an echo. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors It is to be hoped that the original thoughts of the author are not impaired or obscured by the technical turns of the less inspired versifier. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Its literary merits and defects are alike conspicuous in his verse, and he stands immeasurably above the numerous versifiers who may be said to belong to his school. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Our early clerical versifiers set themselves rather to give rhythmical renderings to the romances and chronicles of their time. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Tight as the versifier may draw the knot of logic, yet for the ear he still leaves the tissue of the sentence floating somewhat loose. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) It is well known that more versifiers than one during the fourteenth century attempted romance composition in the English language, having for their theme the knightly deeds of Arthur or Sir Gawayne. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century Every rhyme is correct, which is more than can be claimed for a great deal of the poesy perpetrated by older and more pretentious versifiers on this side of the Atlantic. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Two or three of his songs and ballads, and especially Black-Eyed Susan, have a charm beyond the reach of the mechanical versifier. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) In Parnell we have a sample of the pleasing versifier, touching nothing which he does not adorn, but making no very particular impression. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Hence, again, there follows the peculiar greatness of the true versifier: such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Victor Hugo, whom I place beside them as versifier merely, not as poet. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) After the prose writers prance the versifiers, and Sir Edward Arnold is first in the motley procession. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) We have among us scores of writers blest with beautiful thoughts and attractive fluency, yet the number of precise versifiers may be counted on one's fingers. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Not that the lyrical form was wanting; many minor versifiers, like Hughes, Sheffield, Granville, and Somerville, wrote what they called songs, but unfortunately without an ear for singing. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) How many are the excellent versifiers whose reputation is based wholly upon a solitary effusion! By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Among the enviable versifiers who can satisfy these requirements Praed and Locker both hold a high place. London Lyrics With him came that wit, versifier, and prince of roysterers, Thomas Morton, who, after Wollaston had moved on to Virginia, became "lord of misrule." The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths This objection would apply to the uncounted host of our amateur versifiers, and poets by the grace of verbiage. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 Besides his labors as a playwright, he worked as translator, versifier, and general maker of books. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 The example set by Mr. Lear has been followed by many versifiers, who have sought to create their effects after a manner now sufficiently familiar. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects It is very favourite measure of our Russian poet, who has, however, increased, in some degree, its difficulty for an English versifier, by introducing a great number of double terminations. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 In addition to all these qualifications, he was a skillful versifier, and composed the most beautiful extemporaneous poetry, apparently without an effort. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf One of the most delightful of English versifiers, Owen Seaman, was born in 1861. Modern British Poetry He is a good versifier, but not a great poet. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs A new school of poetry also arose, most of its followers being mechanical versifiers, though the idyllic poets of Sicily sought these favoring halls. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality To say the truth, a modern versifier Clap’d cheek by jowl With Pope, with Dryden, and with Prior, Would look most scurvily, upon my soul! Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." Were we not right in saying that there is nothing in the writings of any former poetaster to equal the silly and conceited jargon of the present versifier? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Never had a poem been more difficult to write to this ready versifier. Tam o' the Scoots As a versifier, he has never been equalled. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges They have the coldness of Cowley, without his wit, the dull exercises of a skilful versifier, resolved, at all adventures, to write something about Chloe, and trying to be amorous by dint of study. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Indeed his "Lyrics" invite one to the dangerous pastime of prophecy; and prophecy of a bright future for this newest of our versifiers. Old Valentines A Love Story He was a witty versifier and clever dramatist, but he soon tired of the paper and directed his energies into other channels. The History of "Punch" On his throne in Fools' hall, Triboulet, the king's hunchback, leaned complacently back, his eyes bent upon a tapestry but newly hung in that room, the meeting place of jesters, buffoons and versifiers. Under the Rose The poet of Otterbourne will be greater without a name, than fifty modern versifiers whom it would be odious to particularise, notwithstanding the blazon of their Christian and patronymic prefix. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Fenton may be justly styled an excellent versifier and a good poet. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Furious and revolting lines were written about George and his wife by one set of versifiers; about the Prince of Wales by another. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II I told her of the splendors of our great versifier, Le-Tai-Pih; and I might have said that many American poets, like Walt Whitman, had doubtless read the translations to their advantage. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Schopenhauer has formulated a philosophy of pessimism, and through a host of the minor story-tellers and versifiers runs the note of discouragement and abandonment. The Chief End of Man Grave as a pastor, Skinner revelled in drollery as a versifier; Macneill loved sweetness and simplicity; Mayne, with a perception of the ludicrous, was plaintive and sentimental; Gall was patriotic and graceful. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Colardeau, the elegant versifier of Pope's epistle of Eliosa to Abelard, had not yet destroyed what he had written of a translation of Tasso. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 In this pedantry and use of “aureate terms” the Scottish versifiers went even beyond their brethren of the south.... English Past and Present “And then down comes the rain and spoils it12 all,” finished the versifier, lapsing into prose. Grace Harlowe's Problem Of late many versifiers have attempted the theme; and some of them with shameful unsuccess. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 There are versifiers innumerable who are not poets, but there are no poets whose hearts remain unstirred by the exciting passion of irrepressible love, when song becomes the written testimony of the inner life. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The blind Bashshar bin Burd and Abul-Atahya were two of the principal poets who flourished in the first ages of Islamism, and ranked in the highest class among the versifiers of that period. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature No philologist or linguist, I am yet an untiring walker and versifier: and really I think that few things are pleasanter than to walk and to versify. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Indignation was rife, and monkish versifiers and chroniclers protested in lines more or less uncomplimentary, and more or less forcible, their loathing of such sin of simony. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See Exactly; yet these same ‘fluent’ versifiers are the persons who talk with elaborate flippancy of the ‘simple common-places’ of this noble poet! The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Another versifier exalts it at the expense of its would-be rival, coffee: The Little Tea Book In 1823, he became known as an elegant versifier, by the publication of his translations from the "Spanish Ballads." The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Our versifiers are provided with admirable paper and gold pens, and our artists, young and old, with the colors Elliott once told an inquirer he made his marvellous flesh-tints with—red, blue and yellow. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 This is a fair enough specimen of Marot at his daily gait: an easy versifier "on a theme" and no more. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance In fact Peele's reputation as a versifier rests almost entirely on the contents of those two plays which most students of his work read, The Arraignment of Paris and David and Bethsabe. The Growth of English Drama Among the latter were a number of robust versifiers and physicians. The Little Tea Book The contagion has affected not only our sciolists and our versifiers, but those whom, in the absence of a mightier race, we must be content to accept as the poets of our age. Early Reviews of English Poets And may I add, as a humble versifier, that I prefer my verse to be quoted correctly, if at all. Gilbert Keith Chesterton In 1898, and later, when a melodious falsetto was much in fashion amongst us, the reviewers found great fault with Mr. Hardy's prosody; they judged him as a versifier to be rude and incorrect. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Encouraged by their approval, he published in 1808 a small volume of poems and songs, which, well received, gained him considerable reputation as a versifier. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Some versifiers wish publications which are but darts dipped in the blood of Lycambus to be mine, and vomit forth the poison of vipers under my name. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour An ordinary versifier would, no doubt, have followed the old routine, and dully described himself as walking into the Louvre, or Buckingham Palace, and there seeing certain masterpieces of painting:—a true poet dreams it. Early Reviews of English Poets But the subjects chosen by Burton were such as belonged to a very plain-spoken age; and as the versifier was no euphuist in his relation of facts, the result was a remarkable “Pastime for Youth.” Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book There are really surprisingly few versifiers who have altogether avoided these errors. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine I do not say rhymers, versifiers and mechanical arrangers of words; I say poets. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Let us repeat that it must not be imputed to Mistral as a fault that he is too clever a versifier. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence The work of the Saxon versifier is attended with further expansion, because of the mechanical exigencies of the poetic form. Anglo-Saxon Literature When he was twenty-one Louis XIV. was married, and invited every versifier in the kingdom to write in honor of the occasion. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business The Hellenism of our versifiers is, as a rule, not Greek; it is derived partly from Swinburne and partly from Pater. A Handbook for Latin Clubs In such hymns the different incidents would be told and re-told, the details varying with the knowledge and the metrical skill of the versifiers. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints An alternative proposes itself to a modern versifier, from which there is no escape, xv which occurs perpetually, and which, choose as he may, presents him always with an evil. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper The bird, proceeding steadily and calmly to its business, may well have confounded its versifier with his fellow the fowler, and looked upon him, too, as regretting only that it was out of gunshot. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 Dryden was a better prose-writer, and a bolder and more varied versifier than Pope. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution Mr. Noyes is, I believe, the only living versifier whose books are, in the words of an American editor, "a commercial proposition." Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 In any case the versifier has the story in a rather different form from the prose writers, and appears to regard it as an incident of the boyhood period. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints "I must take a few of your men back to Rome, for we need critics for our rough Latin versifiers." A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. The most learned critics, many of whom were good versifiers, agreed that Grotius excelled in Poetry. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works Again and again has some minor versifier been hailed as the "American Keats" or the "American Burns." The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics The patriotic versifiers of this country will, if they persist, end by making the sea impossible for a plain man to sail on. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Not only the poets who have been named, but many obscure versifiers are witnesses to this Miltonic revival. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century He was a facile versifier, an elegant prose writer, an able botanist and physiologist. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 My new invention has closed the “door,” for the future, against the vulgar crew of versifiers. Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 You, who have wrestled more mightily, done greater things than these painters and versifiers. A Daughter of the Snows The author was a thoughtful man, able to detect errors in Warton and Percy, but his zeal in his enterprise led him to praise versifiers inordinately that had used the "Gothic fables." The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature All through the classical period the tradition is constant that Waller was the first modern English poet, the first correct versifier. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Let us close the story by a quotation from a tribute paid him by a lady versifier: If worth, if genius, to the world are dear, To Henry's shade devote no common tear. Shandygaff We are profoundly weary of the myriad versifiers who strum the so-called lowly and domestic themes. Mince Pie As a boy he won more than local fame as a versifier. Chapters on Jewish Literature The translations are twelve in number, and evince an intelligent and facile versifier. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature Cicada--There are certain schoolmen who barely allow Homer to be a poet, and set down Virgil, Ovid, Martial, Hesiod, Lucretius, and many others as versifiers, judging them by the rules of poetry of Aristotle. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 There lived Bernard Barton, "the Quaker poet," a versifier of a very mild sort, but immortal by reason of his friendships with greater men. Shandygaff A Tartar by birth, who had absorbed Persian culture, he was a skillful versifier, and could with facility translate simple songs from the Persian into the Tartar language. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 He was simply an extraordinarily gifted author, a perfect versifier, a wondrous lyrist, and a delicious raconteur, endowed with a grace, ease and power of expression that delighted even the exacting artistic sense of Turgenev. Best Russian Short Stories Miss Cushman is really quite as good a poet as Miss Cook, though by no means so fluent a versifier. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 If in fact the false is predominant in the style as well as in the action of certain French tragedies, it is not the verses that should be held responsible therefore, but the versifiers. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Above the newspaper versifiers float the minor poets, and above these soar the greater poets; and the characteristics of the whole hierarchy are the same as those of the humblest acolyte,—intelligence, conservatism, conventional morality. Emerson and Other Essays Of course, all versifiers aim at "poetry"; yet, what is poetry? The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Poetical Quotations Perhaps his most striking use of his power as a versifier was in connection with the romantic Spanish background of California history. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment Skillful versifiers, by help of fancy and a certain plastic aptitude and laborious culture, are enabled to give to smooth verse a flavor of poetry and to achieve a temporary reputation. Essays Æsthetical True learning teaches through love and delight, not through pretentious didactics,—a truth forgotten by the whole tribe of eighteenth century versifiers. Robert Browning But extreme accuracy was not one of Emerson's special gifts, and vanity whispers to the misrepresented versifier that 'tis better to be quoted wrong Than to be quoted not at all. Ralph Waldo Emerson It is when he sits in the scorner's chair, whether in good humour or in bad, that he is the little lord of versifiers. Old and New Masters The old churchyard had been called “The Garden of Rest” by some sentimental versifier, but there was no rest for the dead who tried to sleep within its broken walls. The Moon Rock Besides these there are a few odd translations from Vergil among the experiments of the classical versifiers. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Some late writers, under the notion of imitating these two great versifiers in this point, run into downright affectation, and are guilty of the most improper and ridiculous expressions, provided there be but an alliteration. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. A friend of mine, Adolphe de Leuven, himself an ardent versifier, guided me to a first sense of my vocation, and together we set to work as playwrights. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Pope he was inclined to degrade from a poet to a versifier, and thought his numbers rather luscious than sweet. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler Rather a witty, shrewd, and able versifier than a great poet, Boileau displayed in the Lutrin a richness and suppleness of fancy which his other works had not foreshadowed. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 No versifier of the present day lends himself so readily to parody as Mr. Kipling. Collections and Recollections These personages were two very profound critics, Mr. Gall and Mr. Treacle, and two very multitudinous versifiers, Mr. Nightshade and Mr. McLaurel. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction He took part in the debating society, where he was prominent, and was known as a versifier of both love poems and satire. Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans There is no comparison to be instituted between his actual achievements as a builder and a versifier. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti The versifier sang the parts of the King and Queen in turn, and found each audience perfectly willing to be the oxen, the sweethearts, the swans, the sons, the shepherds, etc. The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems Since the Paris days Hayward had immersed himself in the modern French versifiers, and, such a plethora of poets is there in France, he had several new geniuses to tell Philip about. Of Human Bondage Volumes of worthless verse, most of it printed at the expense of the versifiers, hardly come to sight, and before long they disappear from existence except for copies religiously preserved in public libraries. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations But the simultaneous publication was awkward; and Tickell, though not so good a versifier as Pope, was a dangerous rival, as being a good Greek scholar. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 As much of Waller's reputation was owing to the softness and smoothness of his numbers, it is proper to consider those minute particulars to which a versifier must attend. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 The ribald versifiers flouted it in metrical lampoons whose burden was—"The man I left behind me." The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy They have the coldness of Cowley without his wit, the dull exercises of a skilful versifier, resolved at all adventures to write something about Chloe, and trying to be amorous by dint of study…. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 The three reverend versifiers who turned out such questionable poetry are known to have been writers of clear, scholarly, and vigorous prose. Sabbath in Puritan New England The same trick of composition is often to be met with in the writings of more recent versifiers. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It is said that Sandys, whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age, has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Swinburne, almost exclusively lyrical, a dexterous and enchanting versifier, inspired by the ancient Greeks, generally evinced a highly original poetic temperament, and Dante Rossetti, imbued with mediaeval inspiration, possessed a powerful and slightly giddy imagination. Initiation into Literature He was a very poor poet and a purely mechanical versifier. Among My Books First Series The work of those worthy, painstaking saints we will neither quote nor criticise,--saying only of each reverend versifier, "Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical." Sabbath in Puritan New England Neither did the stressed "dactylic" hexameters of Longfellow, written though they were by a skilful versifier, quite conform to "the nature of the language." A Study of Poetry Ceadmon’s belief that God inspired him with the poetic faculty, did not make him the less laborious and careful versifier. Sermons on National Subjects Through the reformers he had become acquainted with a few journalists, and journalists had led on to versifiers and novelists, and these to a small clique of artists and musicians. Under the Skylights The lively versifier, the keenness of whose sense of humour is excelled only by the bitterness of his satire, could ill afford to be obscure. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur The fickle king abandoned for a second time the psalm versifier, who never again returned to France. Sabbath in Puritan New England Whoever invented the English language must have been a prose-writer, not a versifier; for he has made meagre provision for the poets. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories Always the best epitaphs to be found in books are those composed by versifiers for their own and the reading public's amusement, and always the best in the collection are the humorous ones. A Traveller in Little Things The versifiers and their friends who study them through a magnifying glass may ultimately force us to classify the songsters into wild poets, gamy poets, barnyard poets, poets that hunt and are hunted. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Vile versifiers were invariably accused of having vile personal lives, whereas the poet who basked in the light of fame was conceded, without investigation, to "exult in virtue's pure ethereal flame." The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years I doubt if Marot thought very deeply of the religious influence of his new songs, in spite of Mr. Morley's belief in the versifier's serious intent. Sabbath in Puritan New England But these tame and pedantic versifiers could have given no precedent for the wild inspiration of this strange poem, which clothes in the music of finished art bursts of savage emotion. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius He was one of the most precocious of the long list of precocious versifiers; his own words are: 'I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.' A History of English Literature He is followed by many, and Ypres becomes for a time a centre of versifiers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 Changes are not rung on some typical landscape, copied from an Italian versifier. Halleck's New English Literature Mr. Dryden in his preface to some of his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, calls him the best versifier of the last age. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. Cornelius Severus, though a better versifier than poet, would still claim the second place, if only he had written all his Sicilian War as well as the first book. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The selection of poets was badly made by the publishers, so that many of the lives deal with very minor versifiers. A History of English Literature Tate had been known as a hanger-on at the court of Charles, and as a feeble versifier and pamphleteer of the Tory school, before an alliance with Dryden gave him a certain degree of importance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 Do these minor versifiers fill a want not fully supplied by the great poets? Halleck's New English Literature The reader may observe that the stanzas are reasonably smooth, and mark him a tolerable versifier. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. This laborious compiler and tasteless versifier was born 25 A.D., or according to some 24 A.D., and died by his own act seventy-six years later. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius He is generally a smooth and fluent versifier, but his fluency is his undoing; he wraps up his material in too great a mass of verbiage. A History of English Literature Shelley is generally—and I think most justly—regarded as a peculiarly melodious versifier: but it must not be supposed that he is rigidly exact in his use of rhyme. Adonais When you came to the Throne,—and all the wretched versifiers in the kingdom were scribbling twaddle in the way of 'Coronation odes' and medleys, I wrote 'The Song of Freedom' for your glory! Temporal Power A versifier in the reign of King Charles I. was educated in the university of Cambridge, and was designed for holy orders. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. If his vanity is somewhat excessive we must allow him the merits of a correct and pretty versifier. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius M. Lamartine is no poet, in my estimation, though he may be an elegant versifier; he has no sublime ideas. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Significant and euphonious, therefore alluring to the versifier. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe With what wearied impatience both prince and princess received the 'Wedding Odes' and 'Epithalamiums,' written by first-class and no-class versifiers for the occasion! Temporal Power In the end Apollo becomes "fed up" with his versifiers, and dismisses them all with the intimation that any who have passed will receive printed cards. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography There were therefore two opposing considerations which met the poet in his capacity of versifier. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetry. English literary criticism I was a young versifier, and Wordsworth was just emerging out of a cloud of ignorant contumely into the sunrise of his fame. Charles Lamb The ladies said, It was very pretty; and Miss Darnford, That somebody else had more need to be concerned than the versifier. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded The versifier who twists and breaks his rhythm solely in order to get new sounds is a third. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism In personal appearance he had changed a good deal since that prize-day at Whitelaw when his success as versifier and essayist foretold a literary career. Born in Exile The number of versifiers makes it hard, indeed, for the poet to win recognition. Alfred Tennyson "The great poet of Nature, the contemporary of Chaucer, but worth half-a-dozen of the accomplished word-master, the ingenious versifier of Norman and Italian Tales." The Life of George Borrow Many other versifiers had had their turn at horse-car poetry, and now a publisher was anxious to collect it in a book, provided he could use the Atlantic sketch. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) It is a remarkable proof of his selfknowledge that, from the moment at which he began to distinguish himself in public life, he ceased to be a versifier. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Tickell was a Fellow of a College at Oxford, and must be supposed to have been able to construe the Iliad; and he was a better versifier than his friend. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Aeschylus and Pindar were succeeded by Sophocles, Sophocles by Euripides, Euripides by the Alexandrian versifiers. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 He instantly became the easily parodied model of undergraduate versifiers. Adventures Among Books If he has a lesson to teach English versifiers, surely it is a lesson of gaiety. Essays in Little And yet his work stands out from the ruck of the contemporary versifiers as a balas ruby among carrots. Martin Eden And the song and ballad writers of that day were not always illiterate versifiers. Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 Though by no means great poets, or even good versifiers, they always wrote with meaning, and sometimes with wit. 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