| 单词 | line of verse |
| 例句 | “I twiddle about with lines of verse now and then, but it’s only a hobby. In any case, thank you for indulging me.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Reprinted on the first page of Anorak's Almanac were the four rhyming lines of verse Halliday had recited in the Invitation video. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This particular ritual of my parents’ was actually a thing I loved; I’d spent many nights sitting at the kitchen table with my parents, moved to tears by a particularly powerful line of verse. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But partway through he became absorbed in the writing itself, recasting sentences as lines of verse. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z It flew through thousands of lines of verse like a drone over a wildlife habitat, snapping pictures of similes, allusions, and metatheses. Hacking the Humanities 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z If you measure a line of verse in terms of feet, you’re recognizing its inner dance impulse. Review: Scottish Ballet Finds the Poetry in ... Poetry 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Mr. James is terrific at finding the excitement within a line of verse. Review: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ and Its Wronged Queen, via the Pearl Theater Company 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z His Hamlet is antic, mercurial, unpredictable, but each line of verse comes across clearly, almost conversationally. Oscar Isaac’s Mom Died. Now He’s Working Out His Grief in ‘Hamlet.’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Several of the sheets include groups of rhyming words which he used as springboards for additional lines of verse. Unpublished Dylan lyrics to be sold in New York 2011-06-08T19:35:04Z I know he complained in vain about the scansion of some of the lines of verse I translated. Once upon a life: Margaret Drabble 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z The lines of verse are selected and transcribed by local resident Natalie Potell, who began a two-year stint as the county's poet laureate in October, becoming the fourth person to hold that position since 2014. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Although he was never a prolific poet himself he greatly enjoyed poetry and had a remarkable capacity to commit to memory copious lines of verse which he loved to recall and recite at appropriate moments. Winston Churchill manuscript reveals his poetic side 2013-02-06T20:30:03Z Mojdeh Rezaeipour works in a similar mode, using such 3-D ingredients as twigs, wax and dried flowers and often titling the collages after lines of verse. In the galleries: simplicity, spontaneity and the beauty of imperfection 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Prof Quinn said she had seen lines of verse described as a confession, despite these being composed before the incident. CPS to review guidance on using drill music as evidence 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z That script is three lines of verse, two in dactylic hexameter, the metre of epic verse. From carnage to a camp beauty contest: the endless allure of Troy 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Obscure, formerly sacred images were popular, also lines of verse. “Chaunt” 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Williams was known for his long, conversational lines of verse. Award-winning poet CK Williams, impassioned observer, dies 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Almost all the poems are written in monorhyme—one rhyme for what is sometimes many dozens of lines of verse—and classical Arabic metres. Why Jihadists Write Poetry 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z This book alone reportedly contained thirteen hundred and twenty lines of verse; the contents of all nine volumes may have amounted to some ten thousand lines. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z And of course translating two lines of verse in Urdu might expand to four or five lines in English. India Ink: A Conversation With: Literary Critic and Novelist Shamsur Rahman Faruqi 2013-07-17T13:11:10Z In devising such a plan, you imagine that most world-class self-mythologisers might have been content with a single line of verse. Sheikh Mohammed: the ruler with real horsepower 2013-04-27T23:06:19Z There is also a rather dull image of four hazy lines of verse by the Irish poet Thomas Moore, a family friend. Bodleian library to launch £2.2m bid to stop Fox Talbot archive going overseas 2012-12-09T16:42:13Z Pointing to a small craft half a mile away to starboard, he quoted two lines of verse: A silver sail on a silver sea Under a silver moon. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z All this occupies only one hundred and fifty lines of verse and must be accounted a most skillful bit of playmaking, a scene such as only Fletcher among the Elizabethans could contrive. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Two lines of verse, gathered she knew not whence, rang in her brain and would not be silenced: "Our past deeds follow us from afar And what we have been makes us what we are." The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z And sometimes, if quite "in the vein," a real poet, when modestly asked for merely his signature, will voluntarily add a few lines of verse. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z His view of life was evidently embodied in the following lines of verse which were found pasted in the inside covers of all his books. Journal of Dr. Elias Cornelius, a Revolutionary Surgeon 2011-08-12T02:00:23.570Z In some 21 measure because I have turned into rhythmless prose a line of verse which, as mere sound, has unusual beauty. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The intercessor would not be baffled, and, bethinking himself to appeal by the tenderness of birth and of death to the king, wrote four lines of verse which he left on the table. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z It was then and for the first time that two little lines of verse came into the memory of Alice, the eldest girl, who had been at a good school. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z Three or four lines of verse are sufficient. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z In soliciting my attention by reciting a line of verse, she had merely followed the rule of the tea-room in like circumstances. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z To test his acquirements they proposed that each should furnish an extemporary line of verse, his own to be the last, and all four ending in the same rhyme. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Under each picture are six lines of verse. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z Thus also was evinced the poet nature of the man, though he probably never wrote a line of verse. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z Engraved frontispiece with four lines of verse beneath. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z It is the rule of the Asolando that we shall attract the attention of customers when necessary by speaking a line of verse. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z Sometimes this secret desire is placed tenderly and simply into lines of verse as into a rare, fragrant shrine where the dearest possessions are kept. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z Franklin never wrote a line of poetry in his life, but he wrote hundreds of lines of verse, to the great improvement of the faculty which made him the man he was. The True Benjamin Franklin A similar change occurs in the last line of verse 2, where MS. Erthe Upon Erthe The recriminations of the two bards extend to nearly 3000 lines of verse, and naturally drew down the attention of the whole Irish world of letters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" COUPLET, a pair of lines of verse, which are welded together by an identity of rhyme. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" In answer to his question, the maiden sang two lines of verse, for she always prophesied in verse. Tales of Troy and Greece Each horizontal line represents a line of verse analyzed. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In the fourth line of verse 2, the alliterative piteous parting of MSS. Erthe Upon Erthe The MS. contains about 4200 lines of verse of different dates and by different authors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Each in turn improvised a line of verse, bringing it out as rapidly as possible. Loyal to the School Only a very few lines of verse appeared on each broad luxurious page. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. It was in this Sixteenth Street house that he wrote his last lines of verse—on the birthday of Washington; it was here that he died. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations Those lines of verse ought to have told you so at once. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II He may make a rhythmical line of verse out of it; he may make a story out of it. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life There were some lines of verse on the square panel at the base of the frame. Audrey Craven It's only a senseless poem of a senseless student, who could never write two lines of verse. The Brothers Karamazov In actual fact the lines of verse come from Dante's "Paradiso". Appearances Being Notes of Travel The criticism which feeds upon research and comparison, which considers a new date or the emendation of a mispunctuated line of verse, worthy of effort, knows not Chesterton. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Otho Each line of verse has been split at the caesura. Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Sixty-three lines of verse in rhyming triplets, in modern Cornish, with occasional archaic turns. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature It was simply the enclosure of a few hapless lines of verse, in which the name of Clotilde occurred, and which had been found in the clearance of my chamber preparatory to my journey. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 I give away Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines for 10 lines of verse. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Having briefly intimated to him that I had no intention of buying 'a handsome granite monument, with suitable inscription, or twelve lines of verse, for �4, 17s. 6d.,' Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 He could retain as many as a hundred and eighty lines of verse, after hearing them twice, or sometimes even once. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot The fourth edition appeared in 1811, though some copies are dated 1810, and has one thousand and fifty-two lines of verse in eighty-five pages. The Book-Hunter at Home Now Hunt had never actually written a line of verse in his life, and had no intention of beginning. Potts's Painless Cure 1898 Capitals.—A capital letter should begin every sentence, every line of verse, and every direct quotation. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Samuel Rowlands, a writer in the seventeenth century, ridicules this affectation in a few lines of verse. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Almost every line of verse is a proof of this: both the fact and the explanation are clear when approached from the right angle, and may be tested by carefully prepared statistics. The Principles of English Versification Printed as three lines of verse, ending in selfe, into, you. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois There were no bars for indicating the place of the strong pulse in the measure, but a bar was used to show the end of the musical phrase belonging to a line of verse. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present A perfect line of verse is absolute, immutable, deathless. The Child of Pleasure Sometimes these drawings were the prize of whoever guessed the line of verse they illustrated, sometimes they were sold for a local charity. Gilbert Keith Chesterton In short, easily remembered lines of verse, we learned how she was destitute when the winter winds arrived, and how she went begging for food to the Ant, her neighbour. Social Life in the Insect World Small vessel propelled by oars or sails. benison Blessing; a benediction. cesural Pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States Collinson, as I have already said, was hardly a writing man, and I question whether he had produced a line of verse prior to undertaking this by no means trivial task. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art It was what he had done years and years ago, and all these years between, inscribe ideas for lines of verse in his pocket-book. Romance I felt hopeful myself, for I had not heard that he was thinking of competing, and, indeed, did not remember that he had ever written a line of verse when at school. The Queen's Cup The lines of verse often end in what are called rhymes. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Strangely, inaptly, the line of verse she had just read sung itself in her mind as she rushed. Dangerous Ages All lines have been left justified, including those cases where characters share a line of verse. The Noble Spanish Soldier The whole poem contains one hundred and forty-four stanzas, or something less than six hundred lines of verse. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Never was any one more overwhelmed in composition; and yet certain great persons thought themselves entitled to come and waste his time, coaxing out of him a few lines of verse or a little letter. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London The next thing I wish you to notice is, that every line of verse always begins with a capital letter. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Raptly scrutinizing his meagre form he chanted a line of verse that seemed apposite: "Build thou more stately mansions, O my soul!" Bunker Bean In several cases where only a few lines of verse were originally used, I have given in full the song, etc., from which they were taken. Songs from Books It consists of 1564 stanzas, or something over six thousand lines of verse. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works The second line of verse 18 is a crux. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 And thirdly you will notice, that the lines of verse are more regular in their sound than lines of prose. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. In English, the rhythm of a line of verse depends on the stresses; but where there is more than rhythm,—where there is music,—quantity is a very important factor. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 It was an elaborate one, with many rows of letters, some lines of verse, and several little pictured shapes. Patty and Azalea This it is which furnished MacDowell with the theme that he celebrates in the lines of verse which I have quoted above. Edward MacDowell The first line of verse 4 seems to be connected with verse 3. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 The subtle beauty of a line of verse led him into visionary habitations as fair as any ever disclosed to poet or artist. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery She could see the short, irregular lines of verse on the white paper. The Tree of Heaven Each light had two lines of verse at the foot, explaining the subject matter of the glass above. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See While the story is his own invention, he took several points from Shelvocke's Voyages and accepted a few hints from Wordsworth, who furnished also two or three lines of verse. Selections from Five English Poets The last half of the last line of verse 25 is rendered erroneously by both the vernacular translators. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 It contains about 18,000 lines of verse, besides some passages in prose, and was left incomplete. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Well, I propose that each member of the company composes, within the space of ten minutes, four lines of verse descriptive of the scenery. Thankful Rest And so there rise these lines of verse On lips that rarely form them now; While to each other we rehearse: Such ways, such arts, such looks hast thou! Voices for the Speechless The overshadowing geniuses of art were there, dedicating a word of affection, a line of verse, a bar of music, to the beautiful songstress. The Torrent Entre Naranjos It is difficult to understand the connection of the second line of verse 31. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 He is a poet, and a great one too, though we know not that he ever wrote a line of verse. Famous Reviews When he had finished these lines of verse the Bumpy Man turned again to resume his stirring. The Scarecrow of Oz To be able to repeat a hundred lines of verse after a single reading is no proof of a retentive mind, excepting so far as the hundred lines go. Ponkapog Papers I knew what it meant to be a poet, though for the life of me I could not have made a line of verse. Mr. Standfast Ah," said the doctor, "one moment: I should like you, while looking at the picture, to have in mind a few lines of verse. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 One might sometimes suppose from what we are told, that Virgil's chief claim to poetry was the fact that he once made a line of verse resemble the movement of a horse's hoofs. The Lyric An Essay We do not divide Mr. Peabody's into the lines of verse. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Under all were some lines of verse, scarcely legible in spite of the trouble she had taken to remove the old moss from the letters. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs There were a few lines of verse picked out of long poems, and violently forced from their context; and also a few facetious "Answers to Correspondents," mangled in the same way. Prisoner for Blasphemy Lamb's postscript is written in extremely small characters, and —the letters of the two lines of verse are in alternate red and black inks. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 Chaucer's Earlier Poems.—At the age of forty, Chaucer had probably written not more than one seventh of a total of about 35,000 lines of verse which he left at his death. Halleck's New English Literature In a word, within the compass of three hundred lines of verse, Chaucer contrives to body forth his age—to give us something which is typical. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 And I think that it is partly because of them that I have never, at any epoch in my life, had the least inclination to write a single line of verse. The Story of a Child An examination of any line of verse will verify these statements. The Principles of Aesthetics And he began to repeat, slowly, musically, lines of verse which his companion had never heard: 'O what can ail thee, Knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? In the Year of Jubilee These 244 lines of verse show that he did not need to be taught the melody of song any more than a young nightingale. Halleck's New English Literature It is long since I wrote a line of verse. The Unclassed I have never been able to write a line of verse myself, although I have tried once in a while, but long ago my incapacity was proved. Letters of Franklin K. Lane The inexpressible beauty of some lines of verse comes doubtless from a fugitive melody which we now grasp, now lose. The Principles of Aesthetics In all his life he never wrote a line of verse; he lived his poetry. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million On the paper were scribbled the four lines of verse which in the next four and twenty hours Robespierre himself and his colleagues would read. The Elusive Pimpernel I was just, in my absurd lightheadedness, trying to remember a line of verse about Diana's nymphs, when Miss Mowbray threw her arm round me from behind. The Club of Queer Trades He was well read in the old poets, and he himself was a poet though he wrote no line of verse. 1492 If this line of verse be not yet in our literature, Through very love of self himself he slew, let it be admitted for his epitaph. The Egoist Seeing what an effect the first two lines of verse had had upon him, she thought she would prepare the ground a little for the following lessons. Heidi Some lines of verse came into my memory, and with a change or two I wrote them as deep as I could with my pencil upon a small board that he smoothed for me. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories Mr. H. G. Wells, who, as far as I know, has never written a line of verse, was inspired a few years ago to write a short story, Under the Knife. Notes on Life and Letters The two last lines of verse seven were, confessedly, added by Hogg, to fill a lacuna. A Collection of Ballads |
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