A century of acrostics on the most eminent names [signed C.V.G.]. |
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... sense : - SATOR ARE PO TENET OPERA ROTAS A wag has translated this : " The sower Arepo keeps wheel works . " Very early specimens of Acrostics also exist in the English language ; examples of which often occur in the complimentary ...
... sense : - SATOR ARE PO TENET OPERA ROTAS A wag has translated this : " The sower Arepo keeps wheel works . " Very early specimens of Acrostics also exist in the English language ; examples of which often occur in the complimentary ...
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... sense , and simple style , May teach the gayest , make the gravest smile . " - COWPER . B RIGHT star - like gem of mind sparkling from heaven ! Utterance almost inspir'd to thee was given : N e'er allegory may with thine compare , Youth ...
... sense , and simple style , May teach the gayest , make the gravest smile . " - COWPER . B RIGHT star - like gem of mind sparkling from heaven ! Utterance almost inspir'd to thee was given : N e'er allegory may with thine compare , Youth ...
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... sense what strains melodious play ! M urmuring sweet sounds , such as through Dreamland Soft as the voice of love when lovers stray , pour ; Or wild as echoing horn from tower of yore : Now from the Enchanted Hall are heard these ...
... sense what strains melodious play ! M urmuring sweet sounds , such as through Dreamland Soft as the voice of love when lovers stray , pour ; Or wild as echoing horn from tower of yore : Now from the Enchanted Hall are heard these ...
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... sense , which only is the gift of Heaven , And though no science , fairly worth the seven . " - POPE . FATHER of Britain's mightiest offspring thou ! Rising to Freedom's pride of place till now ; A merica owes half her strength to thee ...
... sense , which only is the gift of Heaven , And though no science , fairly worth the seven . " - POPE . FATHER of Britain's mightiest offspring thou ! Rising to Freedom's pride of place till now ; A merica owes half her strength to thee ...
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... senses ne'er stole than in thee we meet ; ` O favour'd of bards , sung by lady so fair , Regaling our ears with some soft Irish air , Enlivening our hearts , and drowning all care . WILSON . 1788-1854 . " The world is full of 44.
... senses ne'er stole than in thee we meet ; ` O favour'd of bards , sung by lady so fair , Regaling our ears with some soft Irish air , Enlivening our hearts , and drowning all care . WILSON . 1788-1854 . " The world is full of 44.
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AKENSIDE alphabet anagram Archdeacon band Bard Barham boast BORN BOSWELL BRIGHTEST Brislington Bristol BYRON calm CHALMERS charm'd charms Cheshire CICERO Clifton dark deeds deep delight Devon ditto Divine Donhead St dreams DRYDEN e'en e'er Enchanting fam'd fancy's foes foremost stand glorious glory GOETHE Grinfield HAMLET HANDEL hast Heaven Highwick Homer humour inspir'd J. B. Esq JENNER JOHN LAVARS Kingsdon land LINNÆUS Livius lov'd majestic melodious mighty MILTON Miss mongst Mudeford Muse N e'er Nature's ne'er nobler nobly Poet poet's Portsea pride Prince proud Psalm quaint Queen Rang'd rare rich music round thee scenes Scotia's SCOTT Sedgehill SHAKSPEARE Shakspeare's Simonet song stirring strain style sublime sweet themes thine Thomas thou didst thought thy bright thy fame thy genius thy memory thy mind thy Muse thy reign thy soul thy verse Truro ttering WALTON ween wert West Lydford wild wondrous words
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第16页 - Back to the season of life's happy spring, 1 pleased remember, and, while memory yet Holds fast her office here, can ne'er forget; Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail ; Whose humorous vein; strong sense, and simple style, May teach the .gayest, make the gravest smile...
第14页 - Is not each great, each amiable Muse Of classic ages in thy Milton met? A genius universal as his theme; Astonishing as chaos, as the bloom Of blowing Eden fair, as heaven sublime!
第30页 - His sovereign favours, and his country loves; Happy next him who to these shades retires, Whom nature charms, and whom the muse inspires, Whom humbler joys of home-felt quiet please, Successive study, exercise, and ease.
第vi页 - Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. There thou may'st wings display and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
第5页 - Orphean lyre I sung of chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare.
第24页 - And something previous e'en to taste— 'tis sense; Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven; A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
第4页 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
第15页 - O who can tell how calm and sweet, Meek Walton ! shews thy green retreat, When wearied with the tale thy times disclose, The eye first finds thee out in thy secure repose...
第v页 - The verses of the Sybils (said he) are distinguished by that arrangement which the Greeks call Acrostic ; where, from the first letters of each verse in order, words are formed which express some particular meaning; as is the case with some of Ennius's verses, the initial letters of which make * which Ennius wrote V " Among the modern examples of acrostic writing, the most remarkable may be found in the works of Boccaccio.
第28页 - Ful craftier to pleye she was Than Athalus, that made the game First of the chesse, so was hys name. But God wolde I had oones or twyes, Ykoude, and knowe the jeupardyes, That kowde the Greke Pythagoras, 1 shulde han pleyde the bet at ches, And kept my fers the bet therby.