Two items of the same kind.
Pair of lines of metre in poetry; two line stanza making complete sense.
1 The honored antiquity of it is preserved in the anonymous English couplet :
2 I remember the following couplet in allusion to the King and himself:
3 The heroic couplet in which it was cast was the standard metre.
4 And there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet -
5 The first number in each couplet represented a line on page 186.
6 So now, with terrible irrelevance, his mind caught at the simple couplet : -
7 Callimachus wrote the following couplet as an epitaph on the celebrated misanthrope:
8 So the couplet was frequently read as contrition over an irrecoverable loss.
9 I heard him quoting on the hilltops of Mudros his haunting couplet :
10 The last couplet but one was altered in a later copy, thus-
11 A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet .
12 Our being bathèd in light, as the fine dedicatory couplet has it.
13 And this couplet of his, too, might be commended to the devotees:
14 This is the couplet by which the group replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-
15 One of them, a sort of rhymed dialogue, began with the couplet : -
16 The ominous couplet springs from no misty legend, but from melancholy experience.
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