His versification is unaffected, flowing and elegant. From Wordnik.com. [Review of 'Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs'] Reference
Pronunciation is just, when every letter has its proper sound, and every syllable has its proper accent, or, which in English versification is the same, its proper quantity. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
He soon showed wonderful facility in Latin versification, and his first work "De. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
In another year he was elected a scholar at Magdalen College, his recommendation being his skill in Latin versification. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors] Reference
His versification, which is such as his contemporaries practised, without any attempt at innovation or improvement, seldom wants either melody or force. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
However this may be, there is no doubt that, together with the decline of antique civilisation, accent and rhythm began to displace quantity and metre in Latin versification. From Wordnik.com. [Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse] Reference
Cowper's "versification" of the incident is vapid compared to this. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
No parallel to this kind of versification has been found yet in the literature of any other nation. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
He has survived even Pope's "versification" of his poems, one of the most unconsciously humorous things in English literature. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning: How to Know Him] Reference
I need no crossword compiler come from British Rail to tell me that "versification" is an anagram of "verifications," or that "rumel-gumption". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference
A faulty versification deserves censure in all of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Baïf elaborated a system for regulating French versification by quantity. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
He was a great critic, and the first to introduce French versification to rule. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The versification is defective, but the satire is piquant, and no doubt discriminating and just. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
They have in good degree given up the pedantic follies of Latin versification and Hebrew orations. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
His versification is, of course, rough in comparison with that of later writers, the principal points being. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
English versification had not, in the fifteenth or even sixteenth centuries, the numerical regularity of classical or. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Robert Aytoun, and Drummond of Hawthornden, have, amidst much elegant versification, left no impression on the popular mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Gray, before the appearance of Tyrwhitt's essay on the versification of Chaucer, had adopted without hesitation the same hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
But believing Speght's text to be accurate, Dryden could not but believe in the artlessness and irregularity of Chaucer's versification. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
He found the language rough, uncultivated, and unformed, and left it softer, more harmonious, and possessed of a system of versification. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
As to the language and versification, it is in blank verse, and the style is considered by Russians as admirable for ease and flexibility. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
This is seen in the personal attacks made in many of them, as well as in the αἰσχρολογία employed, and also in the versification. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
At parting, the Bishop took the Curate most kindly by the hand, and recommended him by all means to cultivate the amiability of versification. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Anglo-Saxon; a new language is forming, an offspring of the two others, but distinct from them, with a new grammar, versification, and vocabulary. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
But the Sacred Heart has a system of versification of its own which, rather than allow the dangerous expression to be used, let ultra-modesty destroy poetry!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Polished and graceful to an uncommon degree in its versification, this little poem exhibits a fine contemplative vein, and a pervading tone of genuine pathos. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The first fragment alone might, on account of its style and versification, be the work of Chaucer, but this is only a surmise, and we have no direct proof of it. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Concerning the chronological order of his works, and his versification, see "Lydgate's Temple of Glas," ed.J. Schick, Early English Text Society, 1891, Introduction. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
They show the Shakespeare of the dramas mainly in their revelation of a remarkable power of detailed observation and their richness of phrase and fluency of versification. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
But though dull as a poem, it shows facility and talent for versification, breathes a warm aspiration for virtue and truth, and is creditable to the scholarship of its author. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Moved by this reasoning, we have always preferred to follow, as nearly as we could, the exact versification, and even the most minute varieties of tone and metrical accentuation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
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