The noble house of the Scipios introduced the use of poetical elogia in the ancient form of the carmina triumphalia in Saturnian verses (from the 6th century in elegiac distichs).
Mummius, already mentioned, two only are preserved in their original poetical form, the Roman in Saturnian verses of a carmen triumphale (C.
Non scribit, cujus carmina nemo legit=--That man does not write whose verses no man reads.
If my person be crooked, my verses shall be straight.
I am not so weak as to think myself a genius," she murmured; "but I venture to hope my poor verses will be better understood twenty years hence than they are now.
But I frankly own I do not understand yourverses as clearly as I think all verse should be understood.
It would be a sin to keep such verses hidden from the world.
Broken words of prayers, of muttered verses and responses, reached her like the tinkling of far-off chimes, like the rustling of invisible wings.
She read the verses of Cowley and Lord Broghill, French Memoirs recommended by her lover, and the Travels of Fernando Mendez Pinto.
Many of her verses are more strangely incomprehensible than anything even in the poetry of to-day.
The beginning of this letter is lost, and with it, perhaps, the name of Dorothy's lover who had written some verses on her beauty.
The latter has written some quaint and elegant verses to his mistress; the last verse, in which he apostrophizes her as the sun, is peculiarly graceful.
A it has only twenty-three versesin common: yet in them A and Z vary fourteen times.
Four Gospels, and the other contents correspond exactly (Burgon, Last Twelve Versesof St. Mark, pp.
Theophylact's commentary, and some iambic verses written by Nicander, a monk.
Many verses are omitted, and the arrangement of the Lessons is a little unusual.
On the divisions into chapters and verses prevailing in our modern Bibles we need not dwell long.
Greek or Latin metrical versesat beginning or end of books.
In commendation of the modern versesstill less can be said.
Not only did he split up the paragraphs of his quarto into the modern chapters and verses (in itself a most undesirable change, see above, p.
Prefixed areverses of Arsenius, Archbishop of Monembasia (see Evan.
Neither the verses of the poet nor the palette of the artist could convey any conception of her.
The verses of Swinburne referring to the witchery of the novelette which opens the volume, and to the peculiarly sweet and strange romance which follows, sufficiently indicate the extraordinary art of these tales.
Will you look up those verses and tell me what you think, the next time you come?
Every word bristled with a new meaning, and, becoming deeply interested after reading the last two verses of Matthew, he began the book of Mark and did not leave it until he reached the end.
Stella would reciprocate these compliments by verses on the Dean's birth-day; and one is struck with the similarity of her acknowledgments of what the Dean had taught her and done for her to those of Vanessa.
Weever, John, his verses Ad Henricum Porter, not intended for the dramatist, 519.
Udall's verses are reprinted by Arber, English Garner, 2, 52; parts of them published by Collier and Fairholt.
In both plays, about three-quarters of the verses avoid the singsong pause at the end of the second foot.
Latin verses on this coronation by Richard Coxe, Udall's predecessor at Eton (from Harl.
In the prophetic verses the monotone is properly more prevalent.
And, though this practice wanes as the play proceeds, the verses are throughout more frequently endstopped, and the rhythm more mechanical, than in the other dramas.
Lämmerhirt counts nearly 84 per cent of the verses in the Arraignment of Paris as rhymed; David and Bethsabe has less than 7 per cent, and The Battle of Alcazar barely 3 per cent.
In May, 1533, a number of verses were composed by them in joint authorship, for a pageant at the coronation of Anne Boleyn.
Logan was accused of having appropriated in his Poems (1781) verses written by Michael Bruce.
His eclogues in endecasyllables are an echo of those of Camoens, but like his other versesthey are inferior to his redondilhas, which show the traditional fount of his inspiration.
Though his first book, a little volume of verses (Romances) published in 1596, and his last, a rhymed welcome to King Philip III.
Even in the beautiful "Braes of Yarrow" one of the versesis borrowed direct from an old border ballad.
A few versesfrom the Psalms, the shrunken remainder of a whole Psalm.
A verse or verses from the Psalms sung at the offering of the elements.
The confusion between length in Latin verses and strength in English verses is pernicious, and has greatly misled many writers on metre; for the difference between them is fundamental.
One of these will appear in each number of the New Volume, accompanied by Verses appropriate to the subject.
She went into the greenhouse, carrying a piece of black stuff and a pair of scissors, the penknife, and her verses printed in violet.
If the poet be pure in his morals, he will be pure in his verses too; the pen is the tongue of the mind, and as the thought engendered there, so will be the things that it writes down.
The author of this book used to observe the habits of a class of such persons, who frequent the Thames at Eton; and he thus described them in verses of his boyhood:-- What boat is this which creeps so lazily Up the still stream?
Two verses of the National Anthem having been sung, and the benediction pronounced, the meeting dispersed.
The Gaelic verses timing the cheers were recited by Mr. Donald Mackenzie.
He seemed to require neither food nor rest, but kept watching on hour after hour, sometimes moistening the patient's lips with water, sometimes reading a few verses out of the Bible to him.
A few verses of the First Chapter of Genesis extended into so many hundred lines.
Ask the inquirer “who do theseverses say has everlasting life?
I made no comment upon the verses whatever, but the Spirit of God carried them home and tears began to roll down the cheeks of the young woman.
Read the verses and ask him, “What is the first and greatest of the commandments?
If these verses are used they should be read with the deepest earnestness and solemnity and dwelt upon until the person with whom you are dealing realizes their terrible import.
These verses show what the Gospel is, “that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; that he was buried and that he rose the third day according to the scriptures” and this is what he must believe in order to be saved.
These verses show that it was the blood that made the Israelites safe and just so it is to–day the blood that makes us safe, and when God sees the blood he passes over us.
A mind comparatively prosaic, subject to such burdens, speedily out-strips them even on their own element; and the scholar with his authorities kindles the imagination to an extent which the poet with his verses can hardly excel.
Although the hint conveyed by Mr Dowie's ingenious verses was rather of an alarming nature, I made up my mind at once to run all risks and follow him.
Do you recall theverses by the English officer she visited in prison?
The smooth bands of her hair were copied, the curve of her eyelashes was made the subject of some verses which The Examiner printed and the English papers quoted later on.
I have something new to show you,” said he to Dritzhn, who was busy engraving the first verses of the third chapter of Matthew.
Latin inscriptions are on each side of the upper figures, also verses in rhyme on each side of the lower, and other sentences on labels at the bottom of the whole.
Robert Stephens, a member of this family, was the first inventor of the verses into which the New Testament is now divided, and introduced them in his edition of it published in 1551.
The blank books in which Louise recorded her impressions and thoughts and copied out her verses in the years between eight and eighteen afford material for a curious study of unfolding tendencies.
She had written from the age of seven verseswhich would hardly have discredited her maturer years.
I had hoped to send you versesin The Academy, welded by Michael, on some Greek goddess in the British Museum.
It was a time when every girl loved a diminutive; she wrote her name "Nellie" and signed her verses "Nellie C.
She tasted the rapture of a poet born who first sees his verses in print, when she was fourteen.
And am I wrong in conjecturing, however extraordinary the guess appears, that there was some allusion to me in the verses which he recited?
In sober prose, as perhaps these verses intimate less decidedly, the transient idea of Miss Cecilia Stubbs passed from Captain Waverley's heart amid the turmoil which his new destinies excited.
Ask her to show you someverses she made on his history and fate; they have been much admired, I assure you.
You know how little these verses can possibly interest an English stranger, even if I could translate them as you pretend.
Do theverses he sings,' asked Waverley, 'belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine?
Watson is congratulated on 'scaling the skies in lofty quatorzains' in verses before his Passionate Centurie, 1582; cf.
But, all the while that Shakespeare was fancifully assuring his patron [How] to no other pass my verses tend Than of your graces and your gifts to tell, his dramatic work was steadily advancing.
For to no other pass my verses tend Than of your graces and your gifts to tell (ciii.
The verses of Thomas Watson, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Sir Philip Sidney, and Thomas Lodge were certainly among the rills which fed the mighty river of his poetic and lyric invention.
Leonard Digges, in commendatory verses before the First Folio of 1623, wrote that Shakespeare's works would be alive [When] Time dissolves thy Stratford monument.
Commendatory verseswere supplied by Ben Jonson, Hugh Holland, Leonard Digges, and I.
The flyleaf contains Ben Jonson's verses attesting the truthfulness of the portrait.
In some prefatory verses addressed 'Alli veri figlioli delle Muse' laudatory reference was made to the sonnets of Petrarch, Daniel, and Sidney.
Willobie, must be coupled with the fact that Shakespeare, at a date when mentions of him in print were rare, was eulogised by name as the author of 'Lucrece' in some prefatory verses to the volume.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
