"Versify" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to learn how to versify," Tai-y answered with a smile, "you'd better acknowledge me as your tutor; for though I'm not a good hand at poetry, yet I know, after all, enough to be ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... jocosely, had "two and twenty readers, including the printer, the pressman, and the devil." But he was still very poor; so poor that Coleridge offered to supply him with prose translations from the German, in order that he might versify them for the "Morning Post," and thus obtain a little money. In one of his letters Lamb says, "If I got or could but get fifty pounds a year only, in addition to what I have, I should live ...
— Charles Lamb • Barry Cornwall |
