Half the mistakes that the pupils make in reading blank verse are due to the fact that they look too far ahead.
The slim volume for the publishers grew slowly; some evil power of daylight seemed to freeze the versethat he had left aglow, so often was a night of exultation followed by an evening of dismay.
The pleasure of expressing her love, her gratitude for theverse was very great, and though she chose to ignore the fact that the pages were destined to meet his eyes, the inward consciousness of it remained forceful.
Not long afterwards a master discovered him poring dejectedly over original and precocious verse when he ought to have been engaged with declensions, and passed sentence, whereat the versifier gave way to tears.
Nine-tenths of the journals published in London were unknown to him, his verse was as yet imitative, he believed that the best work was the easiest to sell.
The Works of John Milton in verse and prose, printed from the original editions, with a life of the author by J.
Never were ideas of such dignity embodied in verse so easy and familiar, and with such apparent absence of effort.
I think, too, that I have mind of a verse or so," said I.
He studied first at Oxford and afterwards at Cambridge, distinguishing himself at both universities by the vivacity of his parts and the excellence of his compositions both in verse and prose.
She sends succours to the Dutch--is entertained by Leicester, and celebrated in verse by P.
A poet standing at the end of the bridge explained in Latin verse the meaning of all.
He wrote on a vast variety of subjects, and both in verse and prose; but his works on farriery and husbandry appear to have been the most useful, and those on field sports the most entertaining, of his performances.
Blaithmac written inverse by his contemporary Walafrid Strabo, and the Irish Annals.
Cadoc loved to sum up, chiefly under the form of sentences in verse and poetical aphorisms, the instructions given to his pupils of the Llancarvan cloister.
Then let him memorize one verse of not over four to six lines to begin with.
This method recognizes the truth of the verse of the poet, Pope, who said: "Remembrance and reflection how allied!
This addition of the second verse to the first serves to weld the two together by association, and each review of them together serves to add a little bit to the weld, until they become joined in the mind as are "A, B, C.
The next day let him repeat the verse learned the day before, and then let him memorize a second verse in the same way, and just as perfectly.
She attributed it to the fact that when young she had been made to learn a verse from the Bible every day, and then constantly review it.
The celebrated "Blind Alick," an aged Scottish beggar, could repeat any verse in the Bible called for, as well as the entire text of all the chapters and books.
He will find that he can memorize two verses, in the second month, as easily as he did the one verse in the first month.
Let him learn this verse perfectly, line by line, until he is able to repeat it without a mistake.
Continue this for say a month, adding a new verse each day and adding it to the verses preceding it.
As her memory improved, she learned more, the result being that in the end she could repeat from memory any verseor chapter called for in the whole Scripture.
And so, he may proceed from month to month, adding an extra verse to his daily task, until he is unable to spare the time for all the work, or until he feels satisfied with what he has accomplished.
In the verse referred to we are told that there were "white, green, and blue hangings.
That Platen handled difficult metres with virtuosity is not to be laid against him; it is to the advantage of German verse that such poems as his ghasels made indigenous, in part, the feeling for mere beauty in verse.
It is remarkable that Chamisso began to write German only after 1801 and is reported never to have spoken it perfectly; yet hisverse ranks with the best products of Germany in fluency and in form.
The melody of the verse receives a peculiar lilt by frequent changes in metre between stanzas or in the midst of the stanza, and is thus saved from monotony.
There is much talk of poets and poetry in hisverse and much of the tender melancholy of parting lovers, of separation and death.
But his poetry never became a spur to national achievement like the verse of Arndt, that other German poet-professor.
Read to me," he said, "one verse before I close my eyes in death.
A verse or two further on we are told what Ruth did with her leavings.
This is so far applicable to us, as the nextverse indicates--"He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
It need not be assumed that knowledge of Carolyn Thorpe's verse gained wide currency through University circles, but there was a copy of the magazine in the University library.
It was a bit of verse in a narrow black frame, and the mat was embellished with pen-and-ink drawings of the dunes, to the effect of an etching.
She is a sweet girl," he said; "and if she wishes to write verse she is quite within her rights.
But I am thinking of publishing a volume of verse in some such elaborate style, for my verse accumulates fast, and I love to get out lovely books!
Although there is one bit of verse in the foregoing sample column of Field's political paragraphs, it does scant justice to his most effective weapon.
It was sandwiched in between columns of paragraphs and verse such as had earned for him his great vogue with the readers of the Record.
Yesterday I got a letter from a New York friend volunteering to put up the money for publishing a new volume of verse at $20 a copy, the number of copies to be limited to fifty.
But it was one of those bits of verse upon which he loved to putter, and he was loath to put it into type beyond the reach of occasional revision.
An inscription in verse on an engraving of a conductor, published in Nuremberg, early in the eighteenth century, declares that "silent myself, I cause the music I control.
At Flaubert's dictation Maupassant gave up verse for prose; and for seven years he wrote incessantly and published nothing.
And he added that he had written scarcely any versefor years but "had exclusively cultivated the incomparably more difficult art of writing in the even, beautiful idiom of real life.
The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated.
An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.
Sometimes, as in the following, there are verses of four lines each, but only the concluding line of every verse rhymes, i.
This feeling, be it observed, progresses, crescendo forte, gradually and very artistically, from the first verse to the last.
Of this grot The famous Redi sang in verse grotesque: "Ye satyrs, in a trice Leave your low jests and verses rough and hobbly, And bring me a good fragment of the ice Kept in the grotto of the Garden Boboli.
The only other G-natural is shown in measure 7 ofverse 4.
In each verse of this song we find an example of the characteristic which I have termed a "jog.
The delay varies considerably from verse to verse, as indicated by the number of beats rest shown at the ends of the lines.
Daffo-down-dilly has come to town In a fine petticoat and a green gown," is a charming verse for a flower, which the smiling faces of girls in costumes representing flowers will yet further decorate.
The books contain some of the lightest and brightest bits of verse it has lately been our good fortune to lead.
A few words of poetry glance from the prose body of verse and make us forget the prose.
You were wrong in your praise of the present magazine verse at the cost of that in our day.
The reader may himself live with a certain verse and be aware of it now and then merely as a teasing iterance that "From some odd corner of the mind Beats time to nothing in the brain.
It is no part of the account of the fall or of the flood (note verse 4 and Num.
Gautier and Balzac, followed in 1850 by two other volumes named Perles et parures; and some essays in prose and in verse written by him were collected by one of his biographers, Ch.
His gaze widened, for the verse on which his eyes fell stood out from the others in tiny letters of flame.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
