Sentence examples for Greek verse from inspiring English sources

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Her loud, vibrato voice was mesmerizing; it flung Shakespearean and Greek verse about like nursery rhymes.

This makes for great clarity, but for many listeners it may obscure the knotted imagery and tortured struggle with ideas that mark the Greek verse.

Saturnian verse, also called Saturnian metre, the ancient Latin verse used mainly by Livius Andronicus and Gnaeus Naevius before the adoption of Greek verse forms by later Latin writers.

Today he is ranked among the greatest of German poets, especially admired for his uniquely expressive style: like no one before or since, he succeeded in naturalizing the forms of classical Greek verse in the German language.

Ben Jonson, who famously drew attention to Shakespeare's 'small Latine, and lesse Greeke', probably got most of what he knew of Homer from an anthology of Greek verse which had a Latin translation facing each page.

"I used to compose Greek verses off the top of my head".

The dialect, diction, and metre of these Greek verses were all typical of the work of Sappho, the seventh-century-B.C. lyric genius whose sometimes playful, sometimes anguished songs about her susceptibility to the graces of younger women bequeathed us the adjectives "sapphic" and "lesbian" (from the island of Lesbos, where she lived).

Between 1473 and 1478 he produced Latin and Greek verses that are among the best examples of humanist poetry: they include elegies, odes, and epigrams (of particular merit are the elegies In violas ["In Violets"] and In Lalagen and the ode In puellam suam ["In Regard to One's Daughters"]).

In many Greek verses, you find that agora is the opposite of war.

Outwardly, he seemed to live in shabby eccentricity and with aimless brilliance, in a damp and drafty house not far from Oxford, where he busied himself in studying Greek poetry and inventing verse forms.