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Example sentences for "stanzas"

Lexicographically close words:
stannous; stans; stant; stanza; stanzaic; stap; stapes; staple; stapled; staplers
  1. Footnote 4: The story is in 'The Remedy of Love' Stanzas 5--10.

  2. But of all the descriptive Parts of this Song, there are none more beautiful than the four following Stanzas which have a great Force and Spirit in them, and are filled with very natural Circumstances.

  3. Chappe-Hall, being bidden farewell on his leaving for Auckland, was apostrophizing Tahiti in verse, all the stanzas ending in "And the glory of her eyes over all.

  4. Hundreds of youngsters have written as good, or better, Odes to the Moon, Stanzas on a Favourite Canary, Lines on a Butterfly.

  5. In the concluding lines of the stanzas I am about to quote he gives the supreme expression to what was his deepest faith, his profoundest song-motive.

  6. Reprinted revised, in `Dramatis Personae', 1864, as the first six stanzas of VI.

  7. By the allusions in the sixth and eighth stanzas it is clear that the poem was inscribed to Alfred Domett, the poet's well-loved friend immortalised as "Waring".

  8. Would you mind reading a few stanzas over again?

  9. It probably belongs to one poem with the previous stanzas in the same metre: its first line echoes the stanza in incident XIX.

  10. The two authentic stanzas of the Liber Hymnorum are incorporated in the metrical patchwork at the end of LB.

  11. Of the seven stanzas subsequently omitted several are of great beauty.

  12. The ministers preached that it was good to be good, bad to be bad, and wise to eschew fanaticism; and the communicants deemed family worship an excellent thing in the stanzas of the "Cottar's Saturday Night.

  13. Most people who read anything of this nature will remember the stanzas with the refrain: 'This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, And if we did our duty it might be as full of love.

  14. Let us compare the coplas with which the book El Tesoro commences, with the stanzas alluded to.

  15. We have no hesitation in affirming, that very many of his stanzas equal the originals in every thing but the language; and we think we could point out more than one or two that are absolutely superior.

  16. The first in the original follows the second, with three stanzas intervening.

  17. Footnote 4: Two stanzas from different parts of Ambrose Philips's sixth Pastoral.

  18. In the Oxford translation there were six stanzas of this kind: With brightest beams let the Sun shine On Orra Moor.

  19. No less than forty stanzas are taken up with the wonders of Cassis, and more than half of those are devoted to naming the fish the Cassidians catch.

  20. It is said that the Venetian gondoliers still sing the stanzas of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata.

  21. But the terminations of the stanzas rendered the thing transparent to the audience during the delivery, as was quite manifest from the general movement of their risibles.

  22. The shameful acts of the mindless men at the first separation of the sexes had best be referred to in the words of the stanzas of the archaic Book of Dzyan.

  23. As it is written in the stanzas of the archaic Book of Dzyan, "Animals with bones, dragons of the deep, and flying sarpas were added to the creeping things.

  24. As expressed in the archaic stanzas of Dzyan, "Then all men became endowed with Manas.

  25. As stated in the stanzas of Dzyan above quoted, the men of that epoch, even though they had become completely physical, still remained speechless.

  26. These three stanzas are the fifth and ninth of Part First, and the penult verse of Part Second.

  27. The stanzas appearing to possess mo st merit have been selected from each copy.

  28. Advocates' Library, Edinburgh; though its position is not the same as in the dirge, which may excite a suspicion that the order of the stanzas in the latter has been transposed.

  29. The stanzas of greatest merit have been selected from each copy.

  30. Perhaps the following stanzas compose the passage of most sustained excellence.

  31. Meanwhile, the famous Signor Lami, who at that time wrote the literary paper of Florence, thought my Tartana worthy of notice in his journal, and extracted some of its stanzas on the decadence and corruption of the language.

  32. The papers appeared under the title of Atti Granelleschi, and were prefaced with an introduction in octave stanzas from my pen.

  33. They make shameless use of "commonplaces," that is, stock phrases, lines or stanzas which are conveniently held by the memory and which may appear in dozens of different ballads.

  34. Words, phrases, lines and stanzas become colored with emotional overtones due to the feeling of the instant.

  35. It must be observed, however, that the English odes written in strictly uniform stanzas differ greatly in the simplicity of the stanzaic pattern.

  36. She is also celebrated by the poet in the "Braes of Ballahun," and her early demise is lamented in the tender stanzas of "Julia's Grave.

  37. The consideration of brevity must plead our apology with the Celtic readers for omitting many stanzas of the best modern composition in their language.

  38. One who has known Whitman long and well testifies that he was always a religious exalte, and his stanzas show that his musings on death and immortality are inspired by fullest faith.

  39. Parsons, the laureate of this place, who has celebrated it in the stanzas of "Old House at Sudbury" and other poems.

  40. There are many stanzas to this poem, a few of which the teacher will wish to omit, as those referring to the visits to the ale-house and the tavern.

  41. Let these two specimen stanzas answer:-- For a blow of his pick Sorter caved in the side, And he looked and turned sick, Then he trembled and cried.

  42. The first and last stanzas are as follows:-- Hark!

  43. But how do these beautiful stanzas of ottava rima treat their subject?


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stanzas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.