Vers Sentence Examples

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  • After his elevation to the bishopric he ceased to produce the light verse in which he excelled, though his scruples did not prevent him from preparing a new edition of his Recueil de quelques vers amoureux (1602) in 1606.

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  • His Essais en vers et en prose (1797) contains the Marseillaise, a prose tale of the sentimental kind called Adelaide et Monville, and some occasional poems.

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  • The principal literary results of his early years here were the Discours en vers sur l'homme, the play of Alzire and L'Enfant prodigue (1736), and a long treatise on the Newtonian system which he and Madame du Chatelet wrote together.

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  • With it were printed thirteen odes entitled Vers lyriques.

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  • The poem stands absolutely unrivalled, even among French contes en vers.

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  • The French Academy charged de Quatrefages, Decaisne and Peligot with the study of the disease, and they issued two elaborate reports - Etudes sur les maladies actuelles des vers soie (18J9) and Nouvelles Recherches sur les maladies actuelles des vers a soie (1860); but the suggestions they were able to offer had not the effect of stopping the march of the disease.

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  • Adolphe Mathieu (1802-1876) belongs to the earlier half of the century, although the tenth and last volume of his Ouvres en vers was only printed in 1870.

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  • Max Elskamp (born at Antwerp in 1862) is the author of some volumes of religious poetry - Dominical (1892), Salutations, dont d'angeliques (1893), En symbole vers l'apostolat (1895) - for which he has devised as background an imaginary city.

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  • Barthelemy was the author of a number of learned works on antiquarian subjects, but the great work on which his fame rests is Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece, vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere chretienne (4 vols., 1787).

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  • Viele-Griffin is One of the most successful writers of the vers libre, the theory of which he expounded, in conjunction with MM.

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  • That the book of Obadiah, short as it is, is a complex document might have been suspected from an apparent change of view between vers.

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  • Vers libre Revolt against the formal constraints of classical French prosody.

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  • Vers la gauche. . .that means on the left.

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  • Vers le droit. . .that means on the right.

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