| 单词 | nonsense verse |
| 例句 | In his younger days, Alfred himself produced some exceptionally funny parodies and nonsense verse. The enduring allure of A.E. Housman’s poetry 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The nonsense verse known as the limerick was invented by 19th Century poet, famous for his Owl and the Pussycat poem. Barker rewrote 'boring' Lear book 2012-06-13T10:09:26Z All of it is performed in a cascading blend of English, French, and German with Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Swahili, not to mention high-speed nonsense verse. The African Toll of the Great War, in Song and Shadows 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The 19th-century English artist and writer was a serious painter, but he is most loved for his nonsense verse “The Owl and the Pussycat.” In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z “Fountain” was rejected, but Alfred Stieglitz photographed it for this short-lived Dada magazine, which mixed nonsense verse with editorials that asked, “Where Art is concerned is New York satisfied to be like a provincial town?” The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z More consistently than Davidson, she related the nonsense verse to Lear's life – linking the destruction of his first house in Sanremo with the poem Mr and Mrs Discobbolos, which evoked the childhood loss of home. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z In 1974, troubled by the incompleteness of the Faber Complete Nonsense, I urged her to unite his nonsense verse, published and unpublished. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z “Alice in Wonderland” author and amateur cryptographer Lewis Carroll wrote stories and poetry that drip with critiques of Victorian mores and governance, disguised as fantastical children’s nonsense verse, inscrutable riddles and shaggy-dog stories. Perspective | Critiquing Trump was not the problem. Failing to use British doublespeak was. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z He was not afraid to make up words, such as “lubberland of dream and laughter”, or veer into nonsense verse. The poetry of Robert Graves: After the trenches 2013-08-15T15:00:16Z Along the way he produced arresting poetry, including nonsense verse and some moving poems of the Blitz. Leaving Gormenghast 2013-05-10T16:05:41Z A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z A few years ago there were some nonsense verses on this subject going the rounds of the English newspapers. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Yesterday I wrote limericks and nonsense verses on letter paper and made little boats of them and sent them sailing on the lake in the park. Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z However, some of the nonsense verses in this book were up to the highest level of the author’s achievement. The Story of Lewis Carroll Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland 2011-04-30T02:00:12.447Z You see, I cannot get on without writing, as boys do at school, a few nonsense verses. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z It seems unwise to put in a list of poems to be learned by heart an example of nonsense verse. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z It is true that the specimen he rather proudly exhibits does not much differ from what we denominate nonsense verses. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Many of them never heard a Mother Goose jingle or a nonsense verse, and a book is an unlearned delight. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses A collection of fifty delightful jingles and nonsense verses. The Youngest Girl in the School Wit, fun, frolic, fairy tale, nonsense verses, satire, comedy, farce, criticism; a touch of each, an olla podrida which cannot be classified. Tourcoing Catherine had taken the idea from the nonsense verses which had been spreading over the country as generally as the limericks of a few years before. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted Small 4to, cloth 2.00 A collection of Mr. Burgess's nonsense verses and stories. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes But nonsense verse is not confined to this one form. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers It would be interesting as well as instructive to settle the difference between love verses and nonsense verses, if this were the proper place for doing so. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue In some spontaneous instances the writing produces anagrams, puns, nonsense verses and occasional blasphemies or obscenities; and otherwise exhibits characteristics markedly divergent from those of the normal consciousness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" There is this important difference between the writer of nonsense verses and their illustrator; the former must let himself go as much as he can, the latter must hold himself in. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study "But what," you may ask, "is the object of nonsense verse?" Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse Good nonsense verse precludes explanation, the mind of the hearer being too busy with the delightfully odd combinations to figure on how they happened. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes But, as I have already intimated, this does not appear in any other nonsense verses of the kind. The Gypsies I have advised the volunteers who are now in France, and those preparing to go there, to take writing boards, games, bright, pithy stories, and a lot of nonsense verse. Five Lectures on Blindness "Don't you perceive," said Madame Tencin, "that they are nonsense verses?" Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Some nonsense verses underneath the bough, A little "booze", a time to loaf, and thou— Beside me howling in the wilderness, Would be enough for one day anyhow. Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse It must be a not infrequent experience of most people that one frequently falls into pure jingle and nonsense verse of the nursery kind. . . . Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes We may agree with Johnson that Pope performing upon a pastoral pipe is rather a ludicrous person, but for mere practice even nonsense verses have been found useful. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series To publish a book of my nonsense verses seems to me exactly like summoning the whole of the people of Kensington to see me smoke cigarettes. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Lewis Carroll's nonsense verses in the two famous Alice books are supreme among their kind; but are they not sometimes just a shade too ingenious, or too adult in wit? The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine They function evidently, in the main, as factors determining the periods or larger phrases of the rhythm structure—the verses and stanzas of poetry and nonsense verse. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. If the strings of my poor little lyre were not rusty and overworn, I think I should try to sing some of my nonsense verses before his image, and add to the idolatry already existing. Yesterdays with Authors I'm goin' away to leave you, oh, oh! but immediately went off into nonsense verses about gentlemen in the parlour drinking wine and cordial, and ladies in the drawing-room drinking tea and coffee, &c. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 Further nonsense verse and prose, by Lewis Carroll, pseud. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1954 July - December It sounded to me exactly like nonsense verses. Famous Reviews The subject was always asked to choose a rate of delivery which would correspond to his natural rate of reading nonsense verse, and the clicks were always associated with syllables, though not with words. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. At the time when a certain kind of nonsense verse was popular, he, with Sir Noel Paton and others, added not a few facetious sonnets to Edward Lear’s book, which lay on Madame Novikoff’s table. Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake But I'm afraid of it all; I'm tired trying not to drift—tired trying not to try, and tired trying to try—Oh, dear—sounds like a nonsense verse, doesn't it? The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation We might suggest an interesting comparison to the nonsense verse of W. S. Gilbert, which represents the most shocking ideas in a style even nonchalantly matter-of-fact. The Dramatic Values in Plautus The sense of nonsense is no respecter of persons; even staid old Dr. Johnson possessed it, though his nonsense verses are marked by credible fact and irrefutable logic. A Nonsense Anthology This gradual dying out of the tension is clearly seen in the constant appearance of the cone-shaped final syllable at the end of each nonsense verse. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. It seemed to him "playing tricks with music—like nonsense verses—music to please me," added he, "must have a subject." The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 I said, it sounded to me like nonsense verses. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge In a period marked by enthusiasm for new experiments in versification, new feats of technique, the borderland between real conquests of novel territory and sheer nonsense verse becomes very hazy. A Study of Poetry An old nonsense verse attributed to an Oxford student, is the well known: A centipede was happy quite, Until a frog in fun Said, "Pray, which leg comes after which?" A Nonsense Anthology This is strikingly seen in nonsense verses spoken with a heavy accent within the verse. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Hawkins," I said, "why don't you start in and write nonsense verse? Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures "I don't seriously object to Mr. Crow's nonsense verses; but at the same time I never really enjoy them." Mouser Cats' Story The long passages with no striking theme in them conveyed nothing to me, and as to Bach, excepting now and then, his music was like a skilful recitation of nonsense verses. More Pages from a Journal Lear's first nonsense verses, published in 1846, are written in the form of the well-known stanza beginning: There was an old man of Tobago. A Nonsense Anthology It is noteworthy that in these nonsense verses the type is uniform throughout the stanza. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. A dozen years ago some nonsense verses were running through the papers,—verses pointing out with humorous precision the very infelicities of conscious control to which I am now directing attention. The Nature of Goodness Her father wrote out the nonsense verse on his knee and made a funny little illustration in the margin. A Prisoner in Fairyland Scott, Campbell, and Byron probably never produced a line with the qualities of this nonsense verse. Alfred Tennyson Twenty-five years after his first book came out, Lear published other books of nonsense verse and prose, with pictures which are irresistibly mirth-provoking. A Nonsense Anthology In "Ulalume" and other showpieces the wires get crossed and the charm snaps, scattering tinsel fragments of nonsense verse. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters So far as we know, Kipling has never printed anything which can be called nonsense verse, but it is doubtless only a question of time when that branch shall be added to his versatility. A Nonsense Anthology |
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