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He also let loose with an obscene epigram to the effect that:
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Nor does the trite epigram touch the surface of the real mystery.
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The burden of the letters, put in epigram, was rattlesnake and bird.
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In this epigram, however, Martial threatens the eye and not the anus.
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Beyond the point to which Simonides brought it the epigram never rose.
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The dedicatory epigram was one of the earliest forms of Greek poetry.
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Your epigram made all Paris laugh except the hypocrites and the Jesuits.
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A neatly turned epigram or a clever letter made a social success.
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Hence the conclusive epigram with which Garrick rewarded an attack on himself:
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The following is said to be an unpublished epigram of Lord Byron:-
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There is nothing harder to forgive than the sting of an epigram.
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But even his modesty only served to whet the dart of epigram.
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The epigram, too, you sent me on the same occasion is charming.
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The secretary, to borrow an epigram of Sainte-Beuve, both reigns and governs.
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Constantin Huyghens wrote light verse with intricate metres, and an occasional epigram.
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Lastly they set up an altar, on which was engraven this epigram:
