But even with the look, Poured out was all his labour, broken the bond Of that fell tyrant, and a crash was heard Three times like thunder in the meres of hell.
So do the monks at their gates, and Robin Hood will be as good as a monk, though his gates be the meres of Sherwood.
The meres lay at various levels, and the hand of Lady Ladislaw had assisted nature in their enrichment with lilies and water plants.
That meant for me only beautiful green marshes, a number of vividly interesting meresupon the course of its stream, and a wealth of gigantic oaks.
And after that, the fen-men said to each other, that all the birds upon the meres cried nothing, save "Hereward is come home again!
He would go back and see the old house, and the cattle-pastures, and the meres and fens of his boyhood.
And so much for the war among the Meres of Scheldt.
His earlier plays are defined by a list given in the "Wit's Treasury" of Francis Meres in 1598, though the omission of a play from a casual catalogue of this kind would hardly warrant us in assuming its necessary non-existence at the time.
The verdict of Meres that "Shakspere among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage," represented the general feeling of his contemporaries.
In that work, Meres classifies and criticises the poets of his time and country by comparing each of them with some Greek or Roman poet, kindred to the corresponding English one in the line of production chosen and in quality.
The latter is meant to represent Shakspere; for he is introduced by Nano as a soul coming from Apollo, which migrated through Euphorbus and Pythagoras (Meres uses these two names in his eulogy of the soul of Shakspere).
There were manymeres in it, but there were also islands and woods and orchards.
The meres were not impassable marshes; for instance, in Domesday you find the Abbot of Ramsay owning a vessel upon Whittlesea Mere.
Now, the earliest mention that we have of Shakespeare's poems is when Meres speaks of "his sugared sonnets among his private friends.
The next spring" would be 1598, the very year in which Meres speaks of these sonnets as in existence among William Shakespeare's friends.
In 1598, as we saw, Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia credits Shakespeare with Venus and Adonis, with privately circulated sonnets, and with a number of the comedies and tragedies.
Meres mentions the play without indicating whether he meant one part or both.
A play of Shakespeare's called Love's Labour's Won is mentioned by Francis Meres in 1598; and many think that this was the present comedy under another name.
The play was enormously popular, if we may judge by contemporary references to it, and a mistake in attribution by Meres would therefore have been the more {143} remarkable.
In this place too Mr. Steevens's quotations fromMeres and Deckar might be introduced.
If this conjecture be well founded, it will serve to ascertain the date of the composition of the play, and to show that Meres had mistaken the older piece for Shakspeare's.
The simple fact appears to be that all, or nearly all the Vale Royal meres are referable to the existence, underneath, of great salt crystal beds which give occupation to the people of Northwich.
The themes of Tennyson's earlier poems were drawn from the fens and meres and melancholy swamps of Lincolnshire.
Illustration: 0182] Before the reclamation of the fens, the swamps and meres which covered so large a portion of the soil were the haunt of innumerable wild fowl, which were the source of considerable profit to the fensmen.
Fair is the place indeed, for it lies deep among green hills, and from the westward slope where the church stands, at their foot stretch great meres to lesser hills toward the sunset beyond.
Most effective were the slender bundles of rushes,--long, straight rushes gathered that morning from the meres by men who went out in boats for the purpose.
Nevertheless, the de Merespersisted in their project, and worked for its accomplishment with the patience which is the surest means for the success of great undertakings.
The reception of the de Meres was the oldest institution of Lancia, and, contrary to the usual course of things, these old ladies who had not been able to marry themselves, had a perfect mania for helping everybody else to marry.
Shakespeare owed nothing to Meres's paraphrase, but Meres probably owed much to passages in Shakespeare's sonnets.
Meres was a learned graduate of Cambridge University, a divine and schoolmaster, who brought out in 1598 a collection of apophthegms on morals, religion, and literature which he entitled 'Palladis Tamia.
In 1598 Francis Meres enumerated among Shakespeare's best known works his 'sugar'd sonnets among his private friends.
None of Shakespeare's sonnets are known to have been in print when Meres wrote, but they were doubtless in circulation in manuscript.
The Muses would speak Shakespeare's fine filed phrase,' Meres asserted, 'if they could speak English.
Thus we are indebted to Meres for a list of the plays which Shakespeare had produced by 1598, and for a striking testimony to his eminence at that date as a dramatic poet, as a narrative poet, and as a writer of sonnets.
In addition to the Palladis Tamia, Meres was the author of a sermon published in 1597, a copy of which is in the Bodleian, and of two translations from the Spanish, neither of which is of any interest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
