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Chapters three to six are a collection of verses that look more specifically at Israel's transgressions.
The copper-plate inscription of the Maharaja Sharvanatha ( 533 – 534 CE ) from Khoh ( Satna District, Madhya Pradesh ) describes the Mahabharata as a " collection of 100, 000 verses " ( shatasahasri samhita ).
# the Loddfáfnismál ( stanzas 111-138 ), a collection of gnomic verses similar to the Gestaþáttr, addressed to a certain Loddfáfnir
The text was basically a collection of generally patriotic verses written by Helge Rode for the occasion.
The first collection, Verma emrin tim ( Call me by my name ), containing 42 verses, was published in Pristina in 1973 when she was a mere twenty-four years old.
Different scholars have different theories about the transmission of the text to account for the discrepancy yet it is generally agreed that the present collection actually contains too many verses under the name of Theognis: the collection appears in fact to be an anthology that includes verses by him.
It looks like a miscellaneous collection by different authors ( some verses are in fact attributed elsewhere to other poets ) but it is not known when or how the collection was finalized.
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, sometime known as " the father of Theognidean criticism ", was the first modern scholar to edit the collection with a view to separating authentic verses from spurious additions ( 1826 ), Ernest Harrison ( Studies in Theognis 1902 ) subsequently defended the authenticity of the collection, and thus the scholarly world divided into two camps, which one recent scholar half-jokingly referred to as " separatists " and " unitarians " There have also been divisions within the camps.
Separatists have agreed with Theodor Bergk ( 1843 ) that the collection was originally assembled as the work of Theognis, into which a large admixture of foreign matter has somehow found its way, or they have believed it was compiled originally as a textbook for use in schools or else as a set of aristocratic drinking songs, in which some verses of Theognis happen to be strongly represented.
Not all the verses in the collection however fitted Nietzsche's notion of Theognis, the man, and he rejected Musa Paedica or " Book 2 " as the interpolation of a malicious editor out to discredit him.
Her first book, Under the Window ( 1879 ), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses about children, was a bestseller.
In the course of time the collection was interpolated with sentences drawn from other writers, especially from apocryphal writings of Seneca ; the number of genuine verses is about 700.
Buckingham wrote occasional verses, pamphlets, lampoons, satires and plays showing undoubted ( but undeveloped ) poetic gifts, a collection of which, containing however many pieces not from his pen, was first published by Tom Brown in 1704 ; while a few extracts from a commonplace book of Buckingham of some interest are given in an article in the Quarterly Review of January 1898.
* Divya Prabandha, a collection of 4, 000 Tamil verses
This wit was taught with a form of oral tradition called the riddle, a collection of which were bound, along with various other gnomic verses, poems and maxims in the tenth century and deposited in Exeter Cathedral in the eleventh century-the so-called Exeter Book, one of the most important surviving collections of Old English manuscripts.
Thomas Hardy chose to open his first verse collection Wessex Poems and other verses 1898 with " The Temporary the All ," a poem in Sapphics, perhaps as a declaration of his skill and as an encapsulation of his personal experience.
In 1647 a collection of his love verses, entitled The Mistress, was published, and in the next year a volume of wretched satires, The Four Ages of England, was brought out under his name, with the composition of which he had nothing to do.
It is a collection of rhyming aphorisms in 53 thematic divisions and about 4, 700 verses which encapsulate the folk wisdom and experience of the period.
Most of these poems parody the style (" chatty comfortable rhymes " that were " the delight of the enlightened bourgeois of the day ") and form ( Alexandrine couplets arranged in ten line verses ) of some short poems by Coppée ( examples can be found in the collection Promenades et Intérieurs ).

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That same year, he released his first book, a 40-page collection of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems, attributed with the byline " by a Bostonian ".
No single authoritative collection of his work exists, and controversy remains as to the authenticity of a number of works attributed to Galen.
John Ernest Grabe found an otherwise unreported saying of Jesus, attributed to the Apostle Barnabas, amongst the Greek manuscripts in the Baroccian collection in the Bodleian Library ; which he speculated might be a quotation from this lost gospel ; and John Toland claimed to have identified a corresponding phrase when he examined the surviving Italian manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas in Amsterdam before 1709.
The Liber Ignium, or Book of Fires, attributed to Marcus Graecus, is a collection of incendiary recipes, including some gunpowder recipes.
Hengist and Horsa are attested in Bede's 8th-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ; in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, attributed to Nennius ; and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a collection of annals compiled from the end of the 9th century.
One of the most famous Welsh poetic references to Arthur comes in the collection of heroic death-songs known as Y Gododdin ( The Gododdin ), attributed to the 6th-century poet Aneirin.
Newton is attributed with suggesting that he and Cowper collaborate on a collection of hymns, ultimately drawn largely from Newton's texts accumulated over ( by the time of publication ) some 10 years.
The collection of works attributed to Bodhidharma is called " The Six Gates of Shaoshi Collection " ( 少室六門集 Shǎoshì liùmén jí ) Tripitaka Vol.
Plutarch's Moralia contains a collection of " Sayings of Spartan Women ", including a laconic quip attributed to Gorgo: when asked by a woman from Attica why Spartan women were the only women in the world who could rule men, she replied " Because we are the only women who are mothers of men ".
The most famous plays of the Towneley collection are attributed to the Wakefield Master, an anonymous playwright who wrote in the fifteenth century.
Three works are attributed to Murasaki: The Tale of Genji, The Diary of Lady Murasaki and Poetic Memoirs, a collection of 128 poems.
Tribue Domine ( a6 ) is a large-scale sectional composition setting a from a medieval collection of Meditationes which was commonly attributed to St Augustine, composed in a style which owes much to earlier Tudor settings of votive antiphons as a mosaic of full and semichoir passages.
A 9th-century collection of church legislation known as the False Decretals, which was once attributed to Saint Isidore of Seville, is largely composed of forgeries.
A number of pieces are signed simply with the surname, some are attributed to Denis in one collection and to Ennemond in another, and still others are now known to have been be misattributed.
The collection of some 260 witticisms attributed to Hierocles and Philagrius has no connection with Hierocles of Alexandria, but is probably a compilation of later date, founded on two older collections.
Most of the poems in the collection are quite late ( around 10th to 12th century ), though some claim Taliesin as author while others are attributed internally to other poets.
There are many examples of crystal chandeliers both English, displayed in the British galleries and foreign for example Venetian ( attributed to Giuseppe Briati ) dated c1750 are in the collection.
Indian śruti texts post-dating the Rigveda ( such as the Yajurveda, the Atharvaveda and the Brahmanas ), as well as the Hebrew Tanakh and the mystical collection of poems attributed to Lao Tze, the Tao te Ching, date to the Iron Age, but their dating is difficult and controversial.
A collection of eleven Riddles, of which solutions were written by the grammarian Manuel Holobolos, is also attributed to Eustathius.
The Four Books include: the Analects of Confucius, a book of pithy sayings attributed to Confucius and recorded by his disciples ; Mencius, a collection of political dialogues ; the Doctrine of the Mean, a book that teaches the path to Confucian virtue ; and the Great Learning, a book about education, self-cultivation and the Dao.
Besides the foregoing, two pieces in the collection called Priapea ( one an epigram and the other a longer piece in iambics ) have been attributed to Tibullus ; but there is little external and no internal evidence of his authorship ( see Hiller in Hermes, xviii.
The sibylline collection at Gergis was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.

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