Lexicographical Neighbors of Stanzes
Literary usage of Stanzes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Mans Recreation: Being a Discourse on by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1839)
"... are [were] some verses of Cotton's writing, which he calls The Retirement, or
stanzes Irreguliers :—of them, and also of the book, take this character ..."
2. The Library of the Old English Prose Writers by Thomas Fuller (1832)
"At the end of the Second Part were some verses of Cotton's writing, which he
calls the " Retirement, or stanzes Irreguliers." Of them, and also of the book, ..."
3. The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1842)
"... in this edition it has been thought proper to transpose them, are [were] some
verses of Cotton's writing, which he calls The Retirement, or stanzes ..."
4. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1904)
"... and that, ignorant of Cotton's vicious folly, he judged him rather by the
truly beautiful sentiments breathed through the " stanzes Irreguliers. ..."
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