Hexameters

It does not look attractive to me, for it is in English Hexameters, which are to me very cumbrous and uninviting; but probably that may be for some want of knowledge in my own ear and taste.

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

It does not _look_ attractive to me, for it is in English Hexameters, which are to me very cumbrous and uninviting; but probably that may be for some want of knowledge in my own ear and taste.

A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885

Youthful Experiment in English Hexameters, A. Yussouf.

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

Pembroke's Emanuel, containing the Nativity, Passion, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, together with certain Psalms of David, all in English Hexameters.

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698 1687

Exodus _was writ in Hexameters, but I can't perceive any such thing in it, any more than in the_ 90_th_ Psalm, _or the Book of_ Job, _which seem to be written about the same time with it.

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

Pentameter; He also wrote _the Countess of_ Pembroke's _Emanuel_, containing the Nativity, Passion, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, together with certain Psalms of _David_, all in _English_ Hexameters.

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Mar. 13, 1895; P. William Eugene and Martha Hamilton (Dodge); French teacher in high schs. 1917 -; author: Polyptoton in the Hexameters of Ovid, Lucretius and Vergil; Some Unprescribed Readings in French 1923.

Alumni History of the University of North Carolina 1793-1962 1924

Hexameters had given voice to many emotions beautifully, with unfailing modulation of calm or storm.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

Hexameters of his own clamoured, tumultuous, in his brain.

The Octopus : A story of California Frank Norris 1886

Macaulay detested the labour of manufacturing Greek and Latin verse in cold blood as an exercise; and his Hexameters were never up to the best Etonian mark, nor his Iambics to the highest standard of Shrewsbury.

Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883