Sentence example with the word 'distich'

distich

Definition n. two items of the same kind

Last update: July 3, 2015


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In the matter of the rhythms, caesuras and elisions which it allows, the metrical treatment is much more severe than that of Catullus, whose elegiacs are comparatively rude and barbarous; but it is not bound hand and foot, like the Ovidian distich, in a formal and conventional system.   [Please select]

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Why was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first distich.   [Please select]

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A poet who has sung sweetly says, that:-- "Spring would be but gloomy weather, If we had nothing else but Spring;" and our own experience proclaims the truth conveyed in the distich.   [Please select]

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The Masque being written by the King's express command, our author placed this distich in the front, when printed; Non habet ingenium: Cæsar sed jussit: habebo Cur me posse negem, posse quod ille putat.   [Please select]

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