Which preposition to use with versed

in Occurrences 671%

I will here take occasion to notice the physical peculiarities of this country, which, though very familiar to those who are versed in astronomy, may not be unacceptable to the less scientific portion of my readers.

of Occurrences 626%

Handy Solomon still reeled off the verses of, his song.

on Occurrences 147%

also Lord Dorset's Verses on Dorinda (1680):

to Occurrences 146%

Dick, in a low treble, could be heard just behind them, quoting melancholy verses to Rosa; and the brother and sister returned slowly up the dewy, odorous path.

by Occurrences 113%

Take that exquisite fifteenth chapter of St. John and study it verse by verse.

from Occurrences 103%

They also found clover leaves, and I told them its name and sang to them the verse from 'The Bee,' with 'The sweet-smelling clover, he, humming, hangs over.' "Thursday.

with Occurrences 95%

He broke out in the poet's corner of the County Chronicle with some verses with which he was perfectly well satisfied.

for Occurrences 95%

Now, children, I want to be sure you know your memory verse for Sunday school tomorrow.

as Occurrences 43%

On one occasion he came with a dejected air to a friend, and said he had been walking through the streets of London all the morning, thinking how strange it was that not one of all the crowds he met should know as much about Greek tragic verse as himself, and yet that he could not turn his knowledge into a hundred pounds.

about Occurrences 37%

We need variety, but everything must be good of its kind, and verses about children are seldom for children.

at Occurrences 33%

Secondly, they are bound to observe the rules of the liturgy, especially the rule as to the stop in each verse at the asterisk mark.

than Occurrences 20%

In 1827 he was chiefly occupied in selecting Garrick play extracts for Hone's Table Book, at the British Museum, and for a while after that he seems to have been more interested in writing acrostics and album verses than prose.

into Occurrences 18%

If we may use the metaphor of Horace, we should say, that Mr. Atkinson alternately trudges along on foot, and rises on the wings of verse into the upper air.

without Occurrences 17%

Moreover, a toothless satire is verse without poetry- -the most odious of all respectable things.

like Occurrences 11%

I can scarce bring myself to believe that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

before Occurrences 9%

1694, with commendatory verses before it, by H. Briket.

after Occurrences 9%

One can better understand his exquisite verse after such a declaration.

out Occurrences 8%

I shall add but one Prediction more, and that in mystical terms, which shall be included in a verse out of VIRGIL,

beneath Occurrences 5%

Perhaps after all the most fundamental truth about Lewes is that she is the capital of the South Downs, and the South Downs are the glory of the South Country; from the noble antiquity of Winchester to the splendour of Beachy Head they run like an indestructible line of Latin verse beneath the blazon of England.

over Occurrences 5%

An inscription in Saturnian verse over the temple of the Lares Permarini, which was built in the Campus Martius in memory of this victory, for many centuries thereafter proclaimed to the Romans how the fleet of the Asiatics had been defeated before the eyes of king Antiochus and of all his land army, and how the Romans thus "settled the mighty strife and subdued the kings."

among Occurrences 5%

Neither do the Spanish, French, Italians, or Germans acknowledge at all, or very rarely, any such kind of Poesy as Blank Verse among them.

against Occurrences 5%

He exalts the English drama above the French, the Italian, and the Spanish; and vindicates blank verse against rhymed, making, however, a flattering exception of Orrery's dramas.

under Occurrences 4%

Thus (says Winstanley) "by the malice of a woman that worthy Knight was murthered, who yet still lives in that witty poem of his, entitled, A Wife, as is well expressed by the verses under his picture.

during Occurrences 4%

But if you can read into the heart of these things, in the light of other memories as slight, yet as dear to your soul, then you are neither more nor less than a POET, and can afford to write no more verses during the rest of your natural life, which abstinence I take to be one of the surest marks of your meriting the divine name I have just bestowed upon you.

between Occurrences 3%

TATE, ALLEN J. Princeton verse between two wars, an anthology.

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