The Spectator, Zväzok 1George Washington Greene J.B. Lippincott Company, 1880 |
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Strana 164
... 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 ...
Strana 166
... 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 ...
Strana 174
... 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 ...
Strana 180
... 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 ...
Strana 183
... 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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