How To Use Versifier In A Sentence
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El Greco was like a writer, sometimes a poet and sometimes a versifier, who had little command of syntax.
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And hereof saith a noble versifier: Transit ad æthera, virgo puerpera, virgula Jesse, Non sine corpore, sed sine tempore, tendit adesse.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4
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Johnson of Cheshire: that he was himself likely the compiler of the four parts of _The Merry-Thought_ and that, whatever the individual versifiers may have intended, this infamous collection of graffiti -- _as collection_ -- shares very closely with Johnson’s other work a spirit of wild variety, eccentric juxtaposition, and essential anarchism that is meant to lead, not to clever parody of polite literature, but to a new, almost apocalyptic vision of the sublime.
The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4
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To suggest that the noble versifier is at sixes and sevens?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Thus, the claim that "I've kept as yet from thieving pretty free" is undercut by a "stolen" form, or rather one that evokes a high-literate and aristocratic practice of satire, casting the lowly versifier as a clown in lordly clothing.
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If any campus-bound versifier of today boasts a similar wound in pursuit of metre, we'll offer sympathetic space.
The Times Literary Supplement
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dactylic" hexameters of Longfellow, written though they were by a skilful versifier, quite conform to "the nature of the language.
A Study of Poetry
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In addition to the poet, there is another type of versifier, the bard, who lacked the professional training of the fili.
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And yet his work stands out from the ruck of the contemporary versifiers as a balas ruby among carrots.
Chapter 32
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He was a stained-glass designer, amateur architect, and occasional versifier (author of ‘I never saw a purple cow’).
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A remarkable versifier, Dylan exploits the possibilities of poetic form more vitally and vigorously than ever.
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THE AUTHOR OF A LETTER TO MR CIBBER says, 'Pope was so good a versifier [once], that, his predecessor, Mr
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2
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Gongoristic compositions due to himself and to two other versifiers,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The internet in its early years was hailed as the media's great diversifier and democratiser.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the 1820s, a pompous and untalented versifier referred to the Pacific as a ‘liquid waste’, which makes it sound like sewage.
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But in the old days, popular poets and versifiers knew their high culture: they mocked and they borrowed.
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Nostradamus's formal range as a versifier is slight.
The Times Literary Supplement
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At Oxford, Carroll made a name for himself as a freelance humorist, parodist, and versifier.
