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... acrostics , where the principal 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 of ...
... acrostics , where the principal 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 of ...
Pagina 265
... acrostics ; sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggerel rhymes ; sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sen- tences 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 ; sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sen- tences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars : nay , some carry the ...
Pagina 272
... - marches of the most changeable and per- plexed exercise . Not far from these was a body of acrostics , made up of very disproportioned persons . It was dis- No. 63 THE SPECTATOR 273 common soldiers , who filled ...
... - marches of the most changeable and per- plexed exercise . Not far from these was a body of acrostics , made up of very disproportioned persons . It was dis- No. 63 THE SPECTATOR 273 common soldiers , who filled ...
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