| 单词 | a copy of verses |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa copy of verses 7. a copy of verses: a set of verses, a short composition in verse: now chiefly applied to such a composition (esp. Greek or Latin verses) as a school or college exercise. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > short verse or poem > [noun] > short composition in verse (as exercise) a copy of verses1653 sense verse1743 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 184 I will speak you a Coppie of Verses that were made by Doctor Donne. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 58. ¶13 To present his Mistress with a Copy of Verses made in the Shape of her Fan. 1782 F. Burney Lett. 19 Mar. They have put me again into the newspapers, in a copy of verses made upon literary ladies. 1841 T. B. Macaulay Comic Dramatists in Ess. (1854) I. 574/1 Wycherley..was present at a battle, and celebrated it, on his return, in a copy of verses too bad for the bellman. 1882 R. C. Jebb Life Bentley i. 4 The only relic of Bentley's undergraduate life is a copy of English verses on the Gunpowder Plot. That stirring theme was long a stock subject for College exercises. < as lemmas |
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