His lyrical verse was the best of a vicious school; his sonnets, according to that exquisite sonneteer, Sir Egerton Brydges, were the finest in the language; his "History of English Poetry," of which three volumes had appeared, displayed an intimate acquaintance with the early English writers.

To the memory of William Shenstone, Esquire, In whose verse Were all the natural graces.

There is a companion to the poem of which these verses are a portion, called An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie, filled like this, and like two others on Beauty and Love, with Platonic forms both of thought and expression; but I have preferred quoting a longer part of the former to giving portions of both.

This verse, the iambic pentameter, is the regular English heroica stately species, and that in which most of our great poems are composed, whether epic, dramatic, or descriptive.

[The paternal verses were probably a contribution by Charles Dibdin the Younger for Emma Isola's album.

[i.e., Blank Verse] is a greater commendation than to write in Verse exactly.

Lucan is a poet; Livy a historian.[180] Castelvetro probably came nearest to Aristotle in asserting that Lucian and Boccaccio are poets though in prose, although verse is a more fitting garment for poetry than is prose.

"Verse, 'tis true, is not 'the effect of Sudden Thought.'

His verses to Shakespeare and his prose commentaries on him too, are models of what self-respecting admiration should be, generous in its praise of excellence, candid in its statement of defects.

When he was only eleven, his Latin verses were the envy of the older boys at the Bath school, which he was then attending.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

And so these fifty or more thousand verses, written in the Arabic heroic Mutakarib metre, have remained the delight of the Persians down to this very daywhen the glories of the land have almost altogether departed and Mahmud himself is all forgotten of his descendants.

The verses to the memory of a lost love veiled as "Thyrza," of moderate artistic merit, were not, as Moore alleges, mere plays of imagination, but records of a sincere grief.

Adonic verse is a pentasyllable with necessary accents on the first and fourth syllables.

This verse of the text, being a sort of example or representative verse of the psalter, expresses to usdoes it not?the attitude and the mission of the Christian Church.

One extra unaccented syllable is admissible when the verse is llano; and two when the verse is esdrújulo.

For, in the general, they are both proper: that is, one for a Play; the other for a Poem or Copy of Verses: as Blank Verse being as much too low for one [i.e., a. Poem or Verses]; as Rhyme is unnatural for the other [i.e., a Play].

If to Aristotle, then, verse is not the characteristic quality of poetic, the next step in an investigation must be to discover the criterion by which he classifies some literature as poetry and other as not poetry.

in what realms afar, In what planet, in what star, In what gardens of delight Rest thy weary feet to-night? Poet, thou whose latest verse Was a garland on thy hearse, Thou hast sung with organ tone In Deukalion's life thine own.

Prof. Hart says, "The shortest anapæstic verse is a single anapæst;

Raleigh's most notable verses, The Lie, are a challenge to the world, inspired by indignant pride and the weariness of lifethe saeva indignatio of Swift.

My partner on the other side turned to me suavely and asked if I thought the verses in Abraham Lincoln were a beauty or a blemish; and with the assistance of the London stage, the flight to America, Mrs. FULTON'S Blight, Mr. WALPOLE'S Secret City and the prospects of the new Academy, I sailed serenely into port.

Well-sounding verses are the charm we use, Heroic thoughts and virtue to infuse; Things of deep sense we may in prose unfold, But they move more in lofty numbers told.

But Roget instructs him that Verse is its own high reward, that the songs of a true poet will naturally arise like the moon out of and beyond all racks of envious cloud, and that the last thing he should do is to despair.

"Both the ten and eight syllable verses are iambics.