Synonyms
Examples for "couplet"
Examples for "couplet"
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The honored antiquity of it is preserved in the anonymous English couplet:
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I remember the following couplet in allusion to the King and himself:
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The heroic couplet in which it was cast was the standard metre.
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And there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet-
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The first number in each couplet represented a line on page 186.
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The stanza containing the distich ends with a striking piece of realism:
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In this distich is comprised the noblest panegyrick, and the most important instruction.
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The opening distich indicates that the poem is addressed to Tuticanus.
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Garrick immediately said his epitaph was finished, and spoke the following distich extempore:
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Augustin caused to have written on the walls a distich, which ran thus: