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... meaning of this kind of literary frivolity , the line from Horace : feria M siDera VertIce ; the capital letters here , MDVI , give the year 1506 . As a source of amusement this fashion prevailed in some degree among the Romans , and ...
... meaning of this kind of literary frivolity , the line from Horace : feria M siDera VertIce ; the capital letters here , MDVI , give the year 1506 . As a source of amusement this fashion prevailed in some degree among the Romans , and ...
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... meaning . Butler seems to have been rather opposed to this literary fri- volity , for in the following extract from " Hudibras , " in which Orsin is lamenting for his bear , he terms them " splay - foot " rhymes : " He beat his breast ...
... meaning . Butler seems to have been rather opposed to this literary fri- volity , for in the following extract from " Hudibras , " in which Orsin is lamenting for his bear , he terms them " splay - foot " rhymes : " He beat his breast ...
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... meanings , according as they are read downwards or across . Thus , the following lines , if read as they stand , must be admired for their loyalty , but if perused in the order of the figures prefixed , a very different result is ...
... meanings , according as they are read downwards or across . Thus , the following lines , if read as they stand , must be admired for their loyalty , but if perused in the order of the figures prefixed , a very different result is ...
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... meanings , and we leave the reader to find out these for himself , premising that it is not at all difficult , after the examples already given . " That man must lead a happy life Who's free from matrimonial chains , Who is directed by ...
... meanings , and we leave the reader to find out these for himself , premising that it is not at all difficult , after the examples already given . " That man must lead a happy life Who's free from matrimonial chains , Who is directed by ...
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... meaning nothing whatever ! The primary example given is richly - rhymed , elegantly expressed , but actual nonsense ! It is taken from Disraeli's " Curiosities of Literature . " AMPHIGOURIE . Qu'il est heureux de se défendre Quand le ...
... meaning nothing whatever ! The primary example given is richly - rhymed , elegantly expressed , but actual nonsense ! It is taken from Disraeli's " Curiosities of Literature . " AMPHIGOURIE . Qu'il est heureux de se défendre Quand le ...
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