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Pagina 361
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambi- tious 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 arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambi- tious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
Pagina 363
... command Some peaceful province in acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets No. 58.1 363 THE SPECTATOR .
... command Some peaceful province in acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets No. 58.1 363 THE SPECTATOR .
Pagina 372
... acrostics , when the principal let- ters 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 principal let- ters 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 ...
Pagina 379
... acrostics and whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them , because they are whigs or tories , but because they are anagrams and acrostics . But to return to punning . Having pursued the history of a pun , from its original ...
... acrostics and whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them , because they are whigs or tories , but because they are anagrams and acrostics . But to return to punning . Having pursued the history of a pun , from its original ...
Pagina 382
... acrostics : sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggrel rhymes : sometimes 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 doggrel rhymes : sometimes 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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