"Versifier" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... think most justly—regarded as a peculiarly melodious versifier: but it must not be supposed that he is rigidly exact in his use of rhyme. The contrary can be proved from the entire body of his poems. Adonais is, in this respect, neither more nor less correct than his ...
— Adonais • Shelley
... contemporary, that he "not only acted every day, but also obliged himself to write a sheet every day for several years; but many of his plays being composed loosely in taverns, occasions them to be so mean." Besides his labors as a playwright, he worked as translator, versifier, and general maker of books. Late in life he conceived the design of writing the lives of all the poets of the world, including his contemporaries. Had this project been carried out, we should have known something about the external life of Shakespeare; for ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 • Various
... reputation was owing to the softness and smoothness of his numbers, it is proper to consider those minute particulars to which a versifier must attend. ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson
... irregular trader, Captain Wollaston, with some thirty or forty people, chiefly servants, established himself in 1625 two miles north of Wessagusset, calling the place Mount Wollaston. With him came that wit, versifier, and prince of roysterers, Thomas Morton, who, after Wollaston had moved on to Virginia, became "lord of misrule." Dubbing his seat Merrymount, drinking, carousing, and corrupting the Indians, affronting the decorous Separatists at Plymouth, Morton later became a serious menace ...
— The Fathers of New England - A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths • Charles M. Andrews
... though he lacked the highest art of the versifier, Darwin had, beyond peradventure, the imagination of a poet coupled with profound scientific knowledge; and it was his poetic insight, correlating organisms seemingly diverse in structure and imbuing the lowliest flower with a vital personality, which led him to ...
— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
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