Definitionn. a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration
Last update: July 15, 2015
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Among those who denounced it - besides some whose names are now little known, but are recorded in the pages of Clarkson - were Baxter, Sir Richard Steele (in Inkle and Yarico), the poets Southern (in Oroonoko), Pope, Thomson, Shenstone, Dyer, Savage and above all Cowper (see his Charity, and Task, bk. [Please select]
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"Dick Steele should have had it; 'twould have looked vastly well over against his Inkle and Yarico."' [Please select]
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Behn, and Steele's story of Inkle and Yarico in an early _Spectator_, Pope's poor Indian in the _Essay on Man_, and allusions by Thomson, Shenstone, and Savage, show that poets and novelists could occasionally turn the theme to account. [Please select]
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