These are the rewards of reciters and this their end.
And once more he uttered these words, 'Verily, Recitersattain to the same end with the yogins.
I wish, O Bharata, to hear of the fruits that silent Reciters of sacred mantras acquire (by their practice).
In his preface he says that many words in the ballad, "which the reciters have retained without understanding them, still preserve traces of their antiquity.
We very seldom are told by Scott who the reciters were and who the transcribers, but our critic's information is here mournfully limited--by his own lack of study.
He would give the names and residences and circumstances of the reciters or narrators (Herd, in 1776, gave no such information).
Strolling reciters are the least careful of men, each would recite in the language and grammar of his day, and introduce the newly evolved words and idioms, the new and fashionable manners, costume, and weapons of his time.
Such reciters would gladly have forgotten, and such an editor would gladly have "cut" the "business" of the reconciliation.
They must have done their best with such texts as were accessible to them, and among these were probably the copies used by reciters and rhapsodists, answering to the MS.
It could not be otherwise; all the Books would be equally modified in passing through the lips of modern reciters and composers.
But, according to the prevalent critical theory, we read in the Iliad not only large "expansions" of many dates, but also briefer interpolations inserted by the strolling reciters or rhapsodists.
If, on the other hand, reciters had books of the words, they could interpolate at pleasure into them, and such books may have been among the materials used in the construction of a text for the Athenian book market.
Again, a poet in the fortunate position of Jendeus would not teach his Epic in a "school" of reciters unless he were extremely well paid.
Would wandering Ionian reciters at fairs have maintained this uniformity?
As Erasmus was correcting the vice of preachers, it was more to his point to bring an instance from the moral reciters of prose, than from chanters of rhime; though the latter would probably be more popular, and therefore more common.
Reciters frequently, when any part of the narrative appears incomplete, supply the defect in prose.
It appears from the passage of Erasmus here referred to, that there still existed in England of that species of jongleurs or minstrels, whom the French called by the peculiar name of conteours, or reciters in prose.
Besides these Imperial Korans, a number of copies are kept, which the Turbedars present to every person who enters, that he may join with the reciters in their pious labours.
Although the language of this poem is much modernised, yet many words, which the reciters have retained, without understanding them, still preserve traces of its antiquity.
Reciters sometimes call the messenger, the laird of Skene.
Some few there remembered him, and one old man came out among the reciters to tell of the burying, where he himself, a young boy at the time, had carried a candle.
One sees it too in the reciters themselves, whose acting is at times all but perfect in its vivid simplicity.
Reciters sometimes call the messenger the Laird of Skene.
Although the language of this poem is much modernized, yet many words, which the reciters have retained without understanding them, still preserve traces of its antiquity.
I suspect, however, that the recitersmay have corrupted the great Ralph Whitfield into Earl of Whitfield.
So the Greeks had Homeristæ = recitersof Homer, as opposed to the Homeridæ or School of Homer.
FN#300] There is a shade of difference in the words; the former is also used for Reciters of Traditions--a serious subject.
In relation to their belief in fairies the anti-clerical bias of the reciters is worth noting as a curious phenomenon:-- 'That is as I heard when a hairy little fellow upon the knee of my mother.
When members of different tribes met in peace (as at the fair of 'Ukaz) the most skilful reciters strove to maintain the honour of their own people, and a ready improviser was held in high esteem.
Many of the reciters were slain in battle, and it was not till the 8th to the 10th centuries and even later that the earliest collections of these poems were made.
Don Joan y Don Ramon' is a ballad in which a young man returns to his mother mortally wounded, and therefore would be likely to blend in the memory of reciters with any other ballad in which the same incident occurred.
Nevertheless, survivors of the genuine itinerant reciters of ballads have been discovered at intervals almost to the present day.
In the Middle Ages they were each a walking library, often with a very large repertory, and the same is often true to-day among their successors the actors, reciters and the lecturers.
At the public gatherings around the churches and monasteries groups of men and women would similarly gather about the reciters of songs on old kings and heroes or on some great and important event.
Karadgitch that the reciters of the heroic songs are hardly ever young men, but generally men of middle age, and still more frequently old men.
I myself have in my brief experience of them blushed more for reciters than the whole army of them could ever have blushed for themselves.
There is an anecdote, O best of the Kurus, that is sung by all reciters of the Puranas, in connection with that first of all men, the illustrious Vyushitaswa.
And he begat upon her four sons who were allreciters of the Vedas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reciters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
