Read full poem →This latter was born at Worcester, about the middle of
the sixteenth century, and he accompanied Dee in his tra-r
vels abroad, to Germany ; where, for a time, they deceived
Dictionary Entry
One of sixteen equal parts of a whole.
In a Sentence
“A sixteenth of 320 is 20.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
century sixteenthcenturies sixteenthyear sixteenth. sixteenthstreet sixteenthday sixteenthsixteenth earlysixteenth late
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Poetry examples for “sixteenth”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →singer.s An earlier effort consists of a version of Burger's
Lenore completed on or about Rossetti's sixteenth year. 6
Read full poem →3. INTERPRETATION OF THE ALLEGORY.--In the sixteenth century it was the
opinion of Puritan England that every literary masterpiece should not only
Read full poem →zalo concedes he spoke mockingly. But this is a respectable, or distin-
guished rather, sixteenth-century European view of primitive social
organization— the dramatist lifted half of it indeed, almost uniquely
Read full poem →It was not often in the sixteenth or seventeenth century that a
completely emancipated and critical attitude on religious, not
Read full poem →Rev. W. Skeat, 1894, i. 76, 261), are imbedded in Chaucer's _Compleint
to his Lady_. In the sixteenth century Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry
Howard, Earl of Surrey ("Description of the restless state of a lover"),
Read full poem →certain writers, especially of the period at the end of
the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth cen-
Read full poem →There is a poem called Nihil in Latin, by Passerat, a poet and critick of
the sixteenth century, in France; who, in his own epitaph, expresses his
zeal for good poetry thus:
Read full poem →XVI Striking points of difference between the Poets of the
present age and those of the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries--Wish expressed for the union of the