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Meanings of couplet in английском
Usage of couplet in английском
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.
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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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So now, with terrible irrelevance, his mind caught at the simple couplet:-
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Callimachus wrote the following couplet as an epitaph on the celebrated misanthrope:
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So the couplet was frequently read as contrition over an irrecoverable loss.
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I heard him quoting on the hilltops of Mudros his haunting couplet:
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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:-
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One of them, a sort of rhymed dialogue, began with the couplet:-
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The ominous couplet springs from no misty legend, but from melancholy experience.
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