The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works, Volume 5Lippincott, 1867 |
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... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall , therefore , describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall , therefore , describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
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... Acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
... Acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
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... acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram , though it is impossible to decide whether the ... acrostics , which is commonly called a chronogram . This kind of wit ap- pears very open on many modern medals ...
... acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram , though it is impossible to decide whether the ... acrostics , which is commonly called a chronogram . This kind of wit ap- pears very open on many modern medals ...
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... acrostics , and Whig anagrams , and do not quar- rel with either of them , because they are Whigs or Tories , but because they are anagrams and acrostics . But to return to punning . Having pursued the history of a pun , from its ...
... acrostics , and Whig anagrams , and do not quar- rel with either of them , because they are Whigs or Tories , but because they are anagrams and acrostics . But to return to punning . Having pursued the history of a pun , from its ...
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... acrostics : sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggerel rhymes : sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars : nay , some carry the ...
... acrostics : sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggerel rhymes : sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars : nay , some carry the ...
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acrostics Addison admire Æneid anagrams ancient appear audience Avarice beautiful behaviour body Boileau burning-glasses called Cicero club Coan wines conversation creatures delight discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment epigram face figure filled forbear French genius gentleman give Glaphyra greatest hand head heart honour Hudibras humour ingenious insomuch Italian John Simmonds kind ladies language laugh letter likewise lion live look lover manner means mind Mohocks nation nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person piece pleased poem poet privy counsellor reader reason rhymes ridicule ROSCOMMON says scenes sense shew short side Sir Roger soul speak Spect Spectator stage Tatler tell Theodosius thing thou thought tion told tragedy Tryphiodorus verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writers