Read full poem →make a twelve syllable verse, it will have a hundred fellows in our authors, and should have
had one but three lines below the passage here quoted, ^
Dictionary Entry
To repeat the exact words of (a person).
In a Sentence
“The writer quoted the president.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
Synonyms
Poetry examples for “quoted”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The second instance quoted in the Musaeum as a proof of Mr, Upton's
excellency, is his alteration of another of Shakespeare's peculiar graces ia
Read full poem →* QiMmodo std9t sola dvttas I — The words quoted by Dante
in the Vita Nuova when he speaks of the death of Beatrice.
Read full poem →passed into the hands of the person engaged to edit his works, and he
quoted the poem in an obituary of Poe in the New York 'Tribune', before
any one else had an opportunity of publishing it.
Read full poem →death. In the meantime the poet’s own copy, left among his papers, passed
into the hands of the person engaged to edit his works, and he quoted the
poem in an obituary of Poe, in the New York “Tribune,” before any one else
Read full poem →summer of 1914 while it was appearing in the _Mirror_ is my
warrant for saying this. It was quoted and parodied during that time
in the country and in the metropolitan newspapers. _Current
Read full poem →An entry in curly brackets should be read as a dictionary
definition of the quoted text which cannot be directly fitted
into the syntax of the original line. For example:
Read full poem →An entry not enclosed in brackets should be read as a straight
translation of the quoted text which can be directly substituted
for it.
Read full poem →acclaimed and aided him." Rittenhouse's Biographical Notes (above
quoted) contain this entry immediately before Edwin Arlington
Robinson's: "Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt.... Mrs. Robinson, who is a
Read full poem →The first of these sayings was probably a bit of popular rime, of the
character quoted in Shakespeare's _King Lear_, iii. 2. 81. Shakespeare
calls his lines _Merlin's_ prophecy; and it has pleased the editors of
