| 单词 | verse-tale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasverse-tale C2. In the sense ‘composed or written in, consisting of, verse’, as verse drama, verse epistle, verse epitaph, verse-exercise, verse letter, verse miscellany, verse narrative, verse-part, verse play, verse-tale, verse-text, verse translation, etc. ΚΠ 1685 J. Dryden Sylvæ Pref. sig. A2 The hot [prose], (which succeeded them) in this Volume of Verse Miscellanies. 1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 4 Thus much for the Verse-part. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 23 In verse or prose, or in verse-text aided by prose-comment. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 19/1 Verse narrative, even when it deals with true events,..is either more or less than history. 1896 R. Palmer Fam. & Pers. Mem. I. i. viii. 122 He..gained both the University prizes for verse-exercises. 1925 R. Graves Welchman's Hose 31 Then the first draft of a verse-epitaph. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Nov. 850/2 It might be inferred certainly from the verse-epistles [of Burns] alone: not quite so certainly from the prose letters alone. 1952 T. S. Eliot & G. Hoellering Film of Murder in Cathedral 7 Murder in the Cathedral is, I believe, the first contemporary verse play to be adapted to the screen. 1962 Times 14 Aug. 11/1 Jean Cocteau's verse-drama Renaud et Armide. 1963 M. H. Abrams in N. Frye Romanticism Reconsidered 37 In a verse-letter of 1800 Blane identified the crucial influences in his spiritual history as a series beginning with Milton. < as lemmas |
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