couplet

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A version of this review appears in print on February 14, 2014, on page C10 of the with the headline: A Couplet Fantasy Denied .

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2014

A Couplet has lately been made upon the Abbé’s Exile: I don’t remember the Beginning of it, but it ends thus; Que de bonnes gens vont pleurer!

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Couplet, Closed, versus Free System, 95 et sqq.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

At 9 A.M. the next morning they seized the venerable curé of St.-Jean, the Abbé Paquot, and dragged him before Couplet, insisting that he should take the constitutional oath.

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry

He wrote all these Poems in the Ottavo Rima of Tasso, or a Stanza of eight lines, six interwoven, and a Couplet in Base.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Cibber, Theophilus