The distinction between the versifier and the poet, as pointed out by Aristotle and insisted upon by the Italians, became with the Pleiade almost vital.
One may be a poet without versing," says Sidney, "and a versifier without poetry.
Aneau is unable to appreciate the high and sublime conception of the poet's office which the Pleiade first introduced into French literature; for him the poet is a mere versifier who amuses his audience.
This delectable versifierwas born in 1589, in Gloucestershire, from an old family in which he sprung.
The first of these is the only versifier that can be assigned to England in the reign of Henry IV.
But extreme accuracy was not one of Emerson's special gifts, and vanity whispers to the misrepresented versifier that 'tis better to be quoted wrong Than to be quoted not at all.
If we allow that Emerson is not a born singer, that he is a careless versifier and rhymer, we must still recognize that there is something in his verse which belongs, indissolubly, sacredly, to his thought.
For as well shail dye the ryche as the poure/ deth maketh alle thynge lyke and putteth alle to an ende/ And therof made a noble versifier two versis whiche folowe Forma.
And prosper sayth that to good men lacketh no goodnes/ ner to euyll men tencions stryfs and blames And pacience is a ryght noble vertu/ as a noble versifier sayth That pacience is a ryght noble maner to vaynquysshe.
It is said that Sandys, whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age, has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original.
As much of Waller's reputation was owing to the softness and smoothness of his numbers, it is proper to consider those minute particulars to which a versifiermust attend.
To find comparable passages is hard; for either the versifier is hugely the superior of the rival, or, if he be not, and still persist in his more delicate enterprise, he fails to be as widely his inferior.
Tight as the versifier may draw the knot of logic, yet for the ear he still leaves the tissue of the sentence floating somewhat loose.
For if the versifier is not bound to weave a pattern of his own, it is because another pattern has been formally imposed upon him by the laws of verse.
There was Denham, known as a versifier little inferior to Waller, and with such superior claims on the score of loyalty as to be considered worthy of knighthood and the first vacant post.
In the King of Yellow Butterflies and the Potatoes' Dance Miss Dougherty occupied the entire eye of the audience and interpreted, while the versifierchanted the poems as a semi-invisible orchestra, by the side of the curtain.
The thoughts presented by the poet may be rough-hewn; the fancies of the versifier must be accurately finished, and becomingly set.
Tickell was a Fellow of a College at Oxford, and must be supposed to have been able to construe the Iliad; and he was a better versifier than his friend.
But the simultaneous publication was awkward; and Tickell, though not so good a versifier as Pope, was a dangerous rival, as being a good Greek scholar.
He wrote harmonious verses with a good deal of pathos and tenderness, but he is as inferior to Theocritus as he is superior to Moschus, whose artificial style characterizes him rather as a learnedversifier than a true poet.
The Sonnet It is the ambition of many a versifier to be known as a maker of sonnets.
Whatever sins may be original with a versifier at least he has no excuse for an unmetrical line or an untrue rhyme.
To find comparable passages is hard; for either the versifier is hugely the superior of the rival, or, if he be not, and still persist in his more delicate enterprise, he falls to be as widely his inferior.
One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetry.
He who has arrived the nearest to it, is the ingenious and learned Sandys, the best versifier of the former age, if I may properly call it by that name, which was the former part of this concluding century.
The retired statesman had a true taste for literature, but his efforts as a versifier had been limited to a dozen lines translated from Martial.
It is a bald, worthless production, with a few lines or couplets which seem to have proceeded from a more practised versifier than the novice who put together the bulk of the work.
Darwin is a far better versifier than Pope, and a very little pains would make a much more consummate versificator than Dr.
A contemporary versifier speaks of her in language worthy of a Lucretia: 'O how the cruel cord did misbecome Her comely neck!
He was a witty versifier and clever dramatist, but he soon tired of the paper and directed his energies into other channels.
There is perhaps no versifier at the Table with quite the same fancy or taste as Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, Shirley Brooks, and Percival Leigh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "versifier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
