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Значения термина versifier (versifiers) на английском

A writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)

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Examples for "rhymer"
Examples for "rhymer"
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The first is a historical witness, the second a mere academic rhymer.
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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There is a story for a rhymer Sherwood forest could not beat!
A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
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He had no idea his grandfather was such a good rhymer.
Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
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Except Virgil and this anonymous rhymer, I can recall no verse about cheese.
Alarms and Discursions
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The pretty narrative of the rhymer put each of us in a delectable mood.
Tales from Bohemia
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He was a cosmopolite and a rhymester and a press agent and a journalist.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
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I will show France and her what lay in the heart of the poor rhymester.
If I Were King
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And now I can but say, with that witty rhymester, whom everybody in London quotes-
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
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The rhymester introduced all the characters; for instance:
Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow
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I find the rhymester glorious and very vile.
Chivalry: Dizain des Reines
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Yet Hawthorne is essentially a domestic writer,- apoetizerofthe hearth-stone.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Использование термина versifiers на английском
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Among the latter were a number of robust versifiers and physicians.
The Little Tea Book
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I do not say rhymers, versifiers and mechanical arrangers of words; I say poets.
Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
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You, who have wrestled more mightily, done greater things than these painters and versifiers.
A Daughter of the Snows
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Do these minor versifiers fill a want not fully supplied by the great poets?
Halleck's New English Literature
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Among provincial towns, Toulouse seems to have been remarkably rich in indifferent versifiers and critics.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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Aeschylus and Pindar were succeeded by Sophocles, Sophocles by Euripides, Euripides by the Alexandrian versifiers.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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He is followed by many, and Ypres becomes for a time a centre of versifiers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 / A Magaz...
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Of course, all versifiers aim at "poetry"; yet, what is poetry?
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations
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Our patriotic versifiers were eclectic… Read more Audio
Radio NZ
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The same trick of composition is often to be met with in the writings of more recent versifiers.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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The ribald versifiers flouted it in metrical lampoons whose burden was-"Theman I left behind me."
The Hunted Outlaw, or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
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Our patriotic versifiers were eclectic… Audio
Radio NZ
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Would that versifiers took the warning!
Alfred Tennyson
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And yet his work stands out from the ruck of the contemporary versifiers as a balas ruby among carrots.
Martin Eden
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Though by no means great poets, or even good versifiers, they always wrote with meaning, and sometimes with wit.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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Several versifiers had described William turning thousands to flight by his single prowess, and dyeing the Boyne with Irish blood.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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