Compose verses or put into verse.
1 This characteristic of genius was discovered by HORACE in that Ode which schoolboys often versify .
2 Alexis," said Babie; "he was asked to versify it."
3 And here another, which would versify into a fine horrible ballad-asgrand and ghastly as Alfred Tennyson's "Sisters:"
4 The following is an attempt to versify this melancholy appeal of distressed human nature to the help and justice of God.
5 For the Munstermen have always been more 'prone to versify ' than their leaner neighbours on the bogs and stones of Connaught.
6 A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.'
7 His powers were cramped by the fetters of metre, and his attempts to versify even rich thought and deep feeling were puerile.
8 Of course I did not consider my own foolish little versifying poetry.
9 The first edition contained nineteen psalms only, which were all versified by Sternhold.
10 Here is his rendering of the idea as versified in the Temple of Nature:
11 He even amplified, versified , and enfeebled certain rough and ready sentences dictated by Giles.
12 But peradventure, you think Pope Gregory I lived before Virgil, and Virgil versified him.
13 The same writer has happily versified a pleasant superstition of the valley of the Connecticut.
14 The praises of Boileau, although well versified , had not, however, the fortune to please him.
15 But this from the versified Psalms is still worse, yet it is found in the books:
16 This story has been elegantly versified by Warton.
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