To all of them the term metrical prayer rather than hymn should be applied. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
That Alroy is written in metrical prose punctuated by what Disraeli called. From Wordnik.com. [Schwarz 1 - Criticism - Critical Contexts] Reference
ML says: how is this not poetry? is it not “literature in metrical form”?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Sunday Song Lyric] Reference
It is not to be supposed, what we now call metrical romances were always read. From Wordnik.com. [The Lay of Marie] Reference
In spite of what I had better call my metrical precociousness, which I deal with in detail in a later chapter. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
A new system of weights and measures, known as the metrical, was planned, and a new mode of reckoning time was introduced. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Romans for any kind of metrical formula, whether hymn, prayer, or spell. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
The first thing at which, as it seems to me, a Horatian translator ought to aim, is some kind of metrical conformity to his original. From Wordnik.com. [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference
A satisfactory metrical rendering is out of the question. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
In these stories M..T. M. Crawford's metrical translation of the. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
This is a metrical chronicle, written by one of the sons of Gustavus. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
We cannot too much commend a metrical German translation of the heroic. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
The Fairy, tutelary or persecuting, of the chivalrous metrical romance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
English metrical translation (a very free one) written in 1303 by Robert. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
As it is, his poem has the faults we should look for in a metrical version of Euclid. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Tables of metrical tests, 71, 72; of chronology of plays, 76; of quarto editions, 138, 139. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
It is a metrical version of the time-honoured favourites, and every fable has a picture filling the page opposite. From Wordnik.com. [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference
The two indispensable supports which render this elevation possible, are metrical expression and great situations. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
For the plays of Euripides we must turn to the metrical versions of Professor Gilbert Murray, published by Mr. George. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
(The metrical form employed in these poems gave its name to the Alexandrine line later so predominant in French poetry.). From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
"The charming tales are full of beautiful thought and sentiment, and scarcely lack the metrical form to be true poetry.". From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
Such additions, he says, are necessary if the readers are to understand the text and if the metrical form is to be kept. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
Her originality and her skill in metrical treatment have won her high praise, and many of the songs achieved wide popularity. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
For convenience the metrical table is given, showing lengths in feet and inches, in which only three decimal points are used. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Possessed of an ardent love of reading, he early became familiar with the English poets, and himself tried metrical composition. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Bentley, and for some time the efforts of scholars were directed towards reconstructing the metrical original of the prose fables. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
There are other kinds of lyrics that have their own metrical, imperial advice, and they invite you to move swiftly from line to line. From Wordnik.com. [Leonard Cohen: Zen And The Art Of Songwriting] Reference
The confidence felt in his text, however -- the only one upon which a metrical scholar dares work -- in some sort justifies the honour. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
But though the metrical versions of the Psalms often inclined to doggerel, and though they probably had little, if any, influence on the. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
It must be read aloud to them and its beauties pointed out occasionally to create a love for so artificial a thing as metrical composition. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Barbour, in his metrical Life of Robert Bruce, says, that cannon were used by Edward III. in his first campaign against the Scots, in 1327. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
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