Thesaurus / distich
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All these proverbs are identical in form: each is expressed in a distich; the apparent exception in xix.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE BOOK OF PROVERBSR. F. HORTON
Here Selvaggi praised him in a distich, and Salsilli in a tetrastich: neither of them of much value.
LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS: WALLER, MILTON, COWLEYSAMUEL JOHNSON
FitzGerald's verse was evidently also influenced by distich 1866 of the Mantik ut-tair.
THE SUFISTIC QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAMOMAR KHAYYAM
The distich may be an interpolation, or at least deeply corrupted in its present form.
This distich does not belong in the text: it is in itself unintelligible, and interrupts a natural progression from 24 to 27.
In this distich is another line of which Pope was not the author.
THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. IN NINE VOLUMESSAMUEL JOHNSON
This distich is said by a boy who feels very lazy, yet wishes to exert himself.
POPULAR RHYMES AND NURSERY TALESDAVID GOODGER (GOODGER@PYTHON.ORG)
A war is undertaken for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.
RUBIYT OF OMAR KHAYYM AND SALMN AND ABSLOMAR KHAYYM AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON
A Newcastle distich relating to Roger Thornton, a wealthy merchant, and a great benefactor to that town.
POPULAR RHYMES AND NURSERY TALESDAVID GOODGER (GOODGER@PYTHON.ORG)
Why was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first distich?
ULYSSESJAMES JOYCE
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