Read full poem →their god of the sun, and Statius has adopted this erroneous view.
According to the statement of Herodotus, Osiris answered to the Grecian
Bacchus, and there is little doubt that the old historian was right.]
Dictionary Entry
To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
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Poetry examples for “according”
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Read full poem →First Ariel perch'd upon a Matadore,
Then each, according to the rank they bore;
For Sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race,
Read full poem →Gabalis', which both in its title and size is so like a Novel, that
many of the Fair Sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these
Gentlemen, the four Elements are inhabited by Spirits, which they call
Read full poem →Some believed that he had been poisoned ;
but according to an account given in Dr,
Richard Morton's " Pyretologia" (1692), Marwell
Read full poem →In one united to bless modern Courts.
O God! O God! According to the law,
With solemn face to solemn sentence fit,
Read full poem →In one united to bless modern Courts.
O God! O God! According to the law,
With solemn face to solemn sentence fit,
Read full poem →His dramatic compositions arc very numerous, and
are here set down according to the times in which
they were originally performed :
Read full poem →players of interludes and common plays, were declared
to be rogues, and liable to be punished according to
the statutes of the 3Qth of Queen Elizabeth, and 7th
Read full poem →fifth in this regard, according to estimates of Frederick
Rex, municipal reference librarian. ‘The four cities that
Read full poem →Grant us such grace in wisdom to abide
According to Thy Will whose Will is best.
Contented with Thine uttermost behest,