The Spectator, Zväzok 1J. Duncan, 1791 |
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... looks , And sacrifice your dinner to your books ? ANAGRAMS , ACROSTICS , & c . C. SEVERAL kinds of false wit that vanished in the refined ages of the world , discovered themselves again in the 222 NO . SOL THE SPECTATOR :
... looks , And sacrifice your dinner to your books ? ANAGRAMS , ACROSTICS , & c . C. SEVERAL kinds of false wit that vanished in the refined ages of the world , discovered themselves again in the 222 NO . SOL THE SPECTATOR :
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... anagrams , which is nothing else but a transmutation of one word into another , or the turning of the same set of ... anagram of a man . When the anagrammatist takes a name to work upon , he considers it at first as a mine not broken ...
... anagrams , which is nothing else but a transmutation of one word into another , or the turning of the same set of ... anagram of a man . When the anagrammatist takes a name to work upon , he considers it at first as a mine not broken ...
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... anagram . The acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram , though it is impossible to decide whether the inventor of the one or the other were the greater blockhead . The simple acrostic is nothing but the name ...
... anagram . The acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram , though it is impossible to decide whether the inventor of the one or the other were the greater blockhead . The simple acrostic is nothing but the name ...
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... of any spirit of party . There is a most crying dulness on both sides . I have seen Tory Acros- tics and Whig Anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them because they are Whigs or Tories , but No. 61 . 229 THE SPECTATOR .
... of any spirit of party . There is a most crying dulness on both sides . I have seen Tory Acros- tics and Whig Anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them because they are Whigs or Tories , but No. 61 . 229 THE SPECTATOR .
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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 original to its downfal , I shall here define it to be a conceit arising ...
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 original to its downfal , I shall here define it to be a conceit arising ...
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