Alexandrine

Imagine, Chomsky doing an institutional analysis in Alexandrine verse.

Outside the Realm of Poetry 2010

Alexandrine, is found again in the collections of poems which followed: Exil (Exile), 1942, and Vents (Winds),

Nobel Prize in Literature 1960 - Presentation Speech 1960

After a brief struggle known as the Alexandrine War, which closed in

The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

He never called her Alexandrine -- it was always Mrs. Trevlyn; and through the long winter evenings, when they were not at some ball or party, and sat by their splendid fireside, he never put his head in her lap, and let her soft fingers caress his hair, as she had seen other husbands do.

The Fatal Glove Clara Augusta 1872

The war in Egypt, usually called the Alexandrine War, arose from Cæsar's resolving to settle the disputes respecting the succession to the kingdom.

A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853

Alexandrine -- she is called Alexandrine -- has sent for some money.

Mysteries of Paris, V3 Eug��ne Sue 1830

I was baffled by the New Criticism as it was applied in my lit courses (I learned the word "Alexandrine" in order to describe its enigmatic protocols), sunk as a prospective English major by a disastrous attempt at a close reading of Spenser.

Site One: A Romantic Education. 2002

Benlowes -- a Cleveland with more poetry and less cleverness, or a very much weaker Crashaw -- uses a monorhymed triplet made up of a heroic, an octosyllable, and an Alexandrine which is as wilfully odd as the rest of him.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

The most important editions of romances concerning Alexander are M.chelant's of the great poem from which, according to the most general theory, the "Alexandrine" or twelve-syllabled verse takes its name (Stuttgart, 1846), and M. Paul

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Alexandrine, which is not exactly measured by these sons and daughters of song. [

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various