Lexicographical Neighbors of Dranting
Literary usage of Dranting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"In ' Pierces Supererogation ' Harvey uses the expression ' dranting of verses ' (ib.
ii. 131 ). ..."
2. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"His conception of the importance of accent, which was left to Puttenham and others
to develop, shows that he would be no party to the mere ' dranting' of ..."
3. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"... bless yon with your own crosses, and pay you with the usury of your own coin .
. .' ' I long since found by experience, how dranting of verses, ..."
4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... the shrewdness of his general remarks; and, last but not least, his entire
silence about the new versifying, the "dranting of Verses. ..."
5. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1892)
"... and busied himself a while with what Harvey afterwards called " dranting of
verses." He believed in quantity and grieved over the stubbornness of accent ..."
6. Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar in Relation to Contemporary Affairs by James Jackson Higginson (1912)
"... those works were being planned and executed, finding no more fruitful basis
for conversation and cooperation than the 'dranting' of English verse" (pp. ..."
7. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1873)
"... 4to, 1593, speaks of rules for the dranting of verses. On the back of the
title is a short dedicatory ..."
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