Do we say meeter or meter

meeter 6 occurrences

My face is meeter for the spit; I am more suitable to shame, And to the taunts of scornful wit: It's no great matter for my name.

my deere Love, why doe ye sleepe thus long, 85 When meeter were that ye should now awake, T'awayt the comming of your ioyous make,% And hearken to the birds love-learned song, The deawy leaves among!

Who shall tell us which were meeter, Marriage morn, or funeral day? What if nature chose the sweeter, Where her blooming gift to lay? Set in thorns that flower so tender!

Now heaven forbid this barbed shaft descend Upon the fragile body of a fawn, Like fire upon a heap of tender flowers! Can thy steel bolts no meeter quarry find Than the warm life-blood of a harmless deer? Restore, great Prince, thy weapon to its quiver.

methinks the downs are sweeter, And the young company of swains far meeter, Than those forsaken and untroden places.

A-D] swains more meeter.

meter 184 occurrences

The meter had been taken out; and to drink by the flash of an electric torch was anything but a pleasing prospect.

In classical times imaginative and creative literature was almost universally composed in meter, with the result that the metrical form was usually thought to be distinctive of poetry.

Thus he refuses to classify as poetry the scientific writings which Empedocles had composed in meter as well as the histories of Herodotus, even if he had written them in verse.

Indeed, he states explicitly that most forms of poetry do use all of the media mentioned: rhythm, tune, and meter.

He is only insisting that imitation in unmetrical language is still poetry; that meter is not the characteristic element of poetic.

He should choose a subject he can handle; he should plan it so that it be unified and coherent, and have each element in the right place; he should choose words in good use, and write in an appropriate meter.

And though both verse and oratorical prose should be rhythmical, a set rhythm, a meter, is appropriate only to verse.[90]

Formerly rhythm and meter were the distinguishing marks of the poet, but the orators in his days, he says, made increasing use of rhythm.

Meter is a vice in an orator and should be shunned.

To Dionysius the best prose is that which resembles verse although not entirely in meter, and the best poetry that which resembles beautiful prose.

His sixth chapter, on ornament in meter and prose, presents what he has up to this left unsaid about style.

The remainder of the first book deals with meter and verse forms, baldly of prose rhythm, epizeuxis, conceited verses, and various rhetorical figures.

If the definition goes no further, then the only difference between the poet and the orator lies in the Ciceronian dictum that the poet was more restricted in his use of meter.

Maggi and Tifernas echo Cicero that the poet and the orator are the nearest neighbors, differing only in that the poet is slightly more restricted by meter.

Meter he deemed essential to poetry, but rime he disliked.

Because our minds delight greatly in song and harmony, the early poets used meter and rhythm better to incline the soul of man to virtue and morality.

According to Prickard, Aristotle means that poetry must be in meter, but that not all meter is poetry.

According to Prickard, Aristotle means that poetry must be in meter, but that not all meter is poetry.

"Oh, never mindgo farther onanylong meter," uttered his interlocutor, and he forthwith made a sanguine dash into the centre of the book, and gave out a hymn.

" "You want to wait a couple of minutesoff the meter?

According to measurements of Dr. Julius Schmidt, who is not long since dead, and was the director of the Observatory at Athens, a number of these plants grow in the Valley of Cephisus, and attain a height of as much as two meters, the spathe alone measuring nearly one meter.

The gas meter was invented by Clegg in 1816.

per lineal meter traveling over the viaduct at a velocity of 60 kilometers, or about 37 miles, per hour.

This consists essentially of a converter about 1 meter outside diameter, and 1.5 meters high, connected by a single trunnion to a horizontal steel shaft carried by the arm of a hydraulic crane which is very similar in character to the ladle crane of a large sized converter.

This would require spheres having radii of about one meter.

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