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... acrostic , by which means some of the most ar- rant undisputed blackheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
... acrostic , by which means some of the most ar- rant undisputed blackheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
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... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . ' J This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . ' J This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
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... acrostics , when the prin- cipal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle ...
... acrostics , when the prin- cipal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle ...
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... acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epi- gram called ... acrostics and whig ana- grams , and do not quarrel with either of them , be- cause they are whigs or tories , but ...
... acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epi- gram called ... acrostics and whig ana- grams , and do not quarrel with either of them , be- cause they are whigs or tories , but ...
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... acrostics : sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggerel rhymes : some- times of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars ; nay , some carry the ...
... acrostics : sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggerel rhymes : some- times of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars ; nay , some carry the ...
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acquaint acrostics Addison admiration Æneid agreeable anagrams ancient appear Aristotle audience beauty behaviour Ben Jonson called character club coffee-house consider conversation delight discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment Ephesian Matron eyes favour genius gentleman George Etheridge give hand heard heart hero honour Hudibras humble servant humour Italian kind King lady laugh learned letter likewise lion live look Lord lover mankind manner March 15 means mind nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pharamond Pict piece play pleased pleasure poem poet present prince reader reason ROSCOMMON says scenes sense shew Siege of Damascus Sir Roger speak Spectator stage talk Tatler tell thing THOMAS PARNELL thou thought tion told town tragedy Tryphiodorus verses VIRG Virgil virtue whig whole woman women words writing young