| 单词 | distich |
| 例句 | Of these the first and least important comprises eight narrative religious poems, in leonine hexameters or distichs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The story which inspired it begins at distich No. 972, and is as follows: An observer of spiritual things approached the sea And said �O sea, why are you blue? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z I myself could have responded to the royal suspiria with one distich. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z But it has been observed that many of the ethical reflections of the great dramatists, and in particular of Sophocles and Euripides, are gnomic distiches expanded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Furnished with the English letters corresponding to these symbols, one may, if sufficiently curious, translate each distich as one finds it. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z Now, this principle of pure rhythm at the end of each strain, is peculiarly impressed upon the hexameter-pentameter distich. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z "Remember the distich,— 'God still works wonders now and then: Behold! two lawyers, honest men!'" The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z The seven sciences of the accomplished gentleman were those so well known, comprised in the scholastic distich. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z This collection of distichs, written in collaboration with Schiller, was prompted by the indifference and animosity of contemporary criticism, and its disregard for what the two poets regarded as the higher interests of German poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The rhyme was designed to honour the poet's father, who set the forest here; but accident must have stayed the stone-cutter's hand and left the distich incomplete. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z In the model distich quoted by Coleridge— "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter still falling in melody back;" the pentameter is a better verse than the hexameter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z It gave rise to a taunting distich similar to the one at Arlesey. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z "Yes," she admitted; "I suppose that's how it goes;" and she crooned the distich over, as if singing to herself. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z The Greek original, however, being lost, except two distichs, it is impossible to institute an accurate comparison; but the Latin appears to be considerably more diffuse than the Greek. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z So runs the distich,— Saturday's new, and Sunday's full, Was never fine, nor never wool. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z His distichs are like theatrical gestures; he feels the sweep of his toga as he rounds them off. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Over the door of her sleeping-room she inscribed the distich which Virgil has put into the mouth of Dido. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z In the seven remaining epodes Horace has diversified the measures, while retaining the general character of the distich. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z He is again mentioned by Meres for his distich on king James's Furies & Lepanto. fol. A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation A Newcastle distich relating to Roger Thornton, a wealthy merchant, and a great benefactor to that town. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z And boys of older growth may yet recall the simple distich: "It's Evacuation Day, when the British ran away, Please, dear Master, give us holiday!" "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale I know, for example, one usually enlightened and catholic critic who stubbornly maintains that a very commonplace distich by Lord De Tabley is the most magical moment in all English verse. The Book of Susan A Novel They are related, so far as their spontaneity, their universal character, and their origin are concerned, to the coplas of Spain, the stornelli of Italy, and the distichs of modern Greece. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The man, who was in the midst of his pea-and-thimble process, no sooner heard the last word of the distich, than he turned an alarmed look in the direction of where I stood. International Short Stories English This distich is said by a boy who feels very lazy, yet wishes to exert himself. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z The well-known distich on Shakspeare is rather good—it utters with a vigorous turn the general sentiment, the nation's wonder of its own idol. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 I recall from one of these a distich of some merit. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 More metrical excellence and sense can be found in the distich: "Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?" than in any of the products of his brain that he has given us. Every-Day Errors of Speech For now was the parting-time; But she no other answer would give, Than this distich of mystical rhyme,— Kind Sir, if the truth I must tell, At the sign of the Broken-Skimmer I dwell. The Nursery Rhymes of England This belief is embodied in the following distich: A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you whip them the better they be. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z Coleridge also translated from Schiller the well-known distich describing and exemplifying the elegiac verse of Ovid: "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Then, in a strange sing-song voice, and still looking steadfastly at my face, she repeated the old distich, which has been popular in the country for many hundreds of years. Long Live the King He has about ten distichs of "Hudibras" without book, and never leaves the club till he has applied them all. The Tatler, Volume 3 For now 'twas the parting-time; But she no other answer would give, Than this distich of mystical rhyme,— Kind Sir, if the truth I must tell, At the sign of the Broken-Ladle I dwell. The Nursery Rhymes of England When both itch, the above distich expresses the popular belief. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z This "rest and be thankful" bore the following simple distich:— "God bless thee, porter, who great pains doth take; Rest here, and welcome, when thy back doth ache." Old and New London Volume I Then for my edification she proceeds to recite the old distich:— "Pannonia's King shall surely sit So long as Michael's cross doth fit." Long Live the King In this warrant of his, he has made me a high compliment in a facetious distich, by way of dedication of his endeavours, and desires I would recommend them to the world. The Tatler, Volume 3 On the same night Rawleigh wrote this distich on the candle burning dimly:— Cowards fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 This distich alludes to the quantity of old coins found near those places. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z According to the old scoffing distich, "Philip and Francis they have no tomb, For great Christopher takes all the room." Old and New London Volume I In the line, 'The grey hairs yet stack to the heft,' all the gruesomeness of murder is compressed into a distich. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series The two went to Norwich together on one occasion, when Opie painted Dr. Sayers, the scholar, who, in return for his portrait, applied an elegant Greek distich to the painter. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen The first letters of every word of these ten verses form a perfect distich, containing information important to those to whom the Olivetan Bible was addressed. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 March winds are proverbial, and the following distich is not uncommon in Yorkshire: March winds and April showers, Bring forth May flowers. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z The wit of the club, an old Temple bencher, never left the room till he had quoted ten distiches from "Hudibras" and told long stories of a certain extinct man about town named Jack Ogle. Old and New London Volume I The beautiful distich upon Ajax puts me in mind of a description in Homer's 'Odyssey,' which none of the critics have taken notice of. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer In this collection are published popular songs of modern Greece, riddles, proverbs, distichs, tales, &c. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Over this device Coke has written a miserable distich in English, which marks his utter contempt of the philosophical pursuits of his illustrious rival. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Mr. Stevenson, the incomparable cueist, sends this pithy distich:— "Big guns are useful in their way, 'tis true, But nursery cannons have their uses too." Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916 It is, however, pretty generally admitted that the Romans always took care to provide themselves with an umbrella on these occasions, and this for a reason which the above distich will have rendered sufficiently obvious. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue It has, also, the following sublime distich: "Had you seen this road, before it was made, You would lift up your hands, and bless General Wade." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. An old distich runs something as follows:— “Who believe that there are witches, there the witches are; Who believe there aren’t no witches, aren’t no witches there.” Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden It is no mere chance that the earliest piece of poetry, the oldest three distiches of the Old Testament, the Song of Lamech, is a song of triumph over the invention of the sword. Gems (?) of German Thought Sir William, his distichs on a lawyer's division of time, i. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) It is composed of poems, Makamat, parodies, novels, epigrams, distichs, and sonnets—all essentially humorous. Jewish Literature and Other Essays For the rhyme points the satirical hits, while the comparatively brief space of each distich prevents that air of wandering which naturally accompanies satire in longer stanzas. A History of Elizabethan Literature Thomas Wright considers Neckam's Latin version of this popular distich "very curious, as being the earliest allusion we have to the popular legend of the man in the moon." Moon Lore The sayings about women's fickleness are mostly of French origin; from the famous distich of Francis the First, upward and downward. The Subjection of Women Molly Maybush, indeed, gives us a hint of his fondness for that recreation in the following distich: Go hop my pretty pet along, And down the dance lead Bet along. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 Its version of Sir William Jones's distich would be something as follows:— The morn at Church, the afternoon at play, Will serve to while the Day of Rest away. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 The occasion was an attempt on the part of certain writers to determine the authorship of certain distichs printed in both Schiller’s and Goethe’s works. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century It forms the mackerel sky alluded to in the following distich:— "A mack'rel sky and mares'-tails Make lofty ships carry low sails." The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Which royal distich might be translated thus: "Your share, good brother, of the land we win, You'll find entitled and described within." William the Conqueror Makers of History Children not yet abed played quaint blindfold games in which they made the moon their playmate, shrilling the distich: “Tell us, Mistress Moon, who ask it, What you carry in your basket.” The Proud Prince Beneath the head, which is dated 1675, is this distich:— Thou Germane prince of plants, each year to thee, Thousands of subjects grant a subsidy. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions It seems "the good old times," even in those days, were objects of regret, still clung to with fondness and delight—reversing the distich; for— "Man never is, but always has been, blest!" Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 “Ah!” replied the other, “‘evil is wrought by want of thought,’” quoting the old distich. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek In this distich is another line of which Pope was not the author. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Some one quoted a distich: "Saturday's moon and Sunday's full Never were fine and never wull." A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I O keep your eye on David, The demigod of Wales, Before whose furious onset Dukes turn their timid tails; Whom Merioneth mystics Praise in delirious distichs, And matched with whose statistics Munchausen's glory pales. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 Was it strange that the youth who could say this felt himself a poet?—or who, together with his friend, could sing of spring in a Meliboean song of fifty distichs? Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Cursing as he goes along, Gower drives before him, with hissing distichs, the strange herd of his monsters, who "dart sulphureous flames from the cavern of their mouth." A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Savage, however, remarked, that he began a little to relax his dignity when he wrote a distich for his Highness’s dog. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II The asyndeton in this distich is odd, given the preceding series of connectives. The Last Poems of Ovid Let us make a distich of it," added he, with a chuckle; "for, of a verity, some of the K. C.'s of our times are but dunces. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Other appropriate distichs, which I have now forgotten, were framed in the same way on each of the other compartments. Jacob Faithful I tell her she would have made a magnificent lady prioress, whereat she thumbs her beads and whispers a Latin distich, as if she were exorcising a demon. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 The first distich of this epitaph contains a kind of information which few would want, that the man for whom the tomb was erected, died. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Merkel ejected the distich, which seems the best solution; it is not necessary to the poem's structure, and the iterated facit ut in unrelated clauses at 94 and 97 is suspicious. The Last Poems of Ovid My brother, in short, ought to have composed the distich, because he says so, and because he confided it to me tête-à-tête. Figures of Several Centuries 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. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" The boy is said at the age of ten to have carved over the door a Latin distich, which, being translated, runs:— Walk in and welcome, honest friend; repose. Highways and Byways in Sussex Beneath the head, which is dated 1675, is this distich: "Thou German prince of plants, each year to thee Thousands of subjects grant a subsidy." Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. In this final distich Ovid unexpectedly reverts from his gratitude to the Tomitans to the subject of the first part of the poem, the inhospitality of the region. The Last Poems of Ovid A pretty little dog had written on its collar the following distich:— "This collar don't belong to you, sir, Pass on—or you may have one too, sir." The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings And here is part of a "distich on arrival of 38th N.I." A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions The evidence conveyed in this distich is, however, rejected by the skeptical, among modern Astronomers, who consider the passage an allegory. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) The idea expressed in this distich is so self-evident that we might almost characterize it as trite. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 I am not certain that the distich is a simple interpolation, since there is nothing in the context to which it is an obvious gloss. The Last Poems of Ovid The king was, on his side, in a similarly poetical mood, and had made a distich; while La Valliere, like all women who are in love, had composed two sonnets. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" The poet, roving about on a common one fine morning, falls into pensive musings on the fate of the sons of song, which he sums up in this fine distich. Early Reviews of English Poets In Sir W. Jones' translation of the Persian fable, of "The Gardener and Nightingale" we meet with the following distich. Zophiel A Poem The first distich of the first stanza is quite too much in the flimsy strain of our ordinary street ballads: and, on the other hand, the second distich is too much in the other extreme. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Professor E. Fantham points out to me how extraordinary the occurrence of this phrase in the last distich of the poem is. The Last Poems of Ovid Was it worth while, in short, noble Porthos, to heap so much gold, and not have even the distich of a poor poet engraven upon thy monument! The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" The first distich of the first stanza is quite too much in the flimsy strain of our ordinary street ballads; and on the other hand, the second distich is too much in the other extreme. Robert Burns How To Know Him For the selections from Saʻdī the distich which had been used for the versions from the Greek anthology is the favorite form. The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany That cruel act of spoliation was commemorated, or revenged, by an angry Latin distich. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three The other examples all occur in the middle of an argument, or lead into another distich containing a final injunction or proof of an argument. The Last Poems of Ovid The sixteenth-century Spaniards embodied a somewhat similar maxim of State policy as applied to England in the following distich, the principle of which was, however, flagrantly violated by that fervent Catholic, Philip II.: Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Propertius had put this distich in an elegy in which he narrated a nocturnal promenade between Rome and Tibur. The Wonders of Pompeii In short, do we not remember the amusing distich, affixed at the time to the gate of the Cemetery of St. Médard?— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Round the edge ran an inscription, which, after some study, Hilda made out to be the old distich: "When Adam delved, and Eve span, Where was then the gentleman?" Queen Hildegarde Nec, printed by some editors, cannot by itself be correct, for there is no negative with the corresponding producatur in the following distich. The Last Poems of Ovid He was not content with giving our author these exterior marks of respect only, but he honoured him by a Latin distich in his praise, which is printed before Milton's Latin poems. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II He immediately set down this distich under them: Our poor little town has no little to brag, The Emperor was here, and he dined at the Stag. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I There is also an enigma contained in a distich written by a lady of the times, which preserves the real pronunciation of the name of this extraordinary man. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The reader may not be displeased to have a specimen of the manner of rendering these distichs into French verse: 1. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One The opening distich indicates that the poem is addressed to Tuticanus. The Last Poems of Ovid These little scraps of Latin, sometimes running into a distich, are frequent signs of a certain classical proclivity of the writer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 A wit of the day described the Parliaments of James by this ludicrous distich: Many faults complained of, few things amended, A subsidy granted, the Parliament ended. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions The same writer incloses a punning distich: the name of our lord chief-justice was in his day very provocative of the pun, both in Latin and English; Cicero, indeed, had pre-occupied the miserable trifle. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The construction of the distich is then given: 'Hail, sacred queen, whose son is the lover of men; through thee divine and heavenly glory comes to us.' The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London Only in the concluding distich does Ovid direct the poem to ask for his assistance. The Last Poems of Ovid Henceforth the distich was treated as a unit: the first line was balanced against the second, and frequently the first half of the line against the second half. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century That no "boast," however, was intended, becomes probable, when we consider that the distich was designed to convey a feeling of reverence towards Socinus rather than an insult to Rome. Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 By degrees the words grew more articulate, shaping themselves into the same quaint distich that Kelly had repeated,— "The stranger that hither comes o'er the broad sea Shall wed on the night of St Bartlemy." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 It was not until comparatively modern times that our Western world fully recognized the value of the distich, triplet or quatrain for the expression of beautiful thoughts, rather than for the expression of ill-natured ones. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn In the final distich of the poem, he asks Suillius to assist his prayer. The Last Poems of Ovid It consisted of 56,000 distichs or couplets, for every thousand of which the Sultan had promised the poet one thousand pieces of gold. A Study of Fairy Tales This distich is the first utterance of a piskey I have heard. Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 This is a collection of "Reimsprüche" or rhymed distichs embodying a strange mystical pantheism drawn mainly from the writings of Jakob Böhme and his followers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Pope's distich, whence the line is taken, runs,— "For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest." Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 In the concluding distich Ovid declares that he has rendered immortal the deeds of Vestalis. The Last Poems of Ovid A Latin distich, a farewell to Buxton, scratched on the window of one of the rooms, is attributed to the hand of that unhappy princess. Rides on Railways The dervish answered, "I am not, like the others, overstocked with learning and wit, nor am I much read in books; and you must be satisfied with my reciting one distich." The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 The Kasídah is composed of distichs, the first two of which only are to rhyme; though every line must end in the same syllable. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Leo used occasionally to send him some dishes from his table; and he was expected to pay for each dish with a Latin distich. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 473, January 29, 1831 This distich does not belong in the text: it is in itself unintelligible, and interrupts a natural progression from 24 to 27. The Last Poems of Ovid Davis was now spitting in the Presidential spittoon, and scribbling his distiches with the nib of the Presidential goose-quill. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator Though the sting is very epigrammatic, the whole of the distich has more of the truth than becomes prophecy; that is, it is false, for the spring is wet and cold. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I Sir,—In the distich you have quoted from my Lectures at page 143 of your last Mirror, it should have been stated that the statue was a Cupid. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829 Confidence in the intellectual power of man heightened to poetic form is expressed in the distichs entitled Columbus, which are among the most peculiar poetic productions that Schiller has given us. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Often he introduces his plight in only one or two distichs of a poem, subordinating the topic to the poem's main theme. The Last Poems of Ovid They recall the French wit to whom a friend showed a distich: "Excellent," he said; "but isn't it rather spun out?" Studies in Literature In this distich is comprised the noblest panegyrick, and the most important instruction. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Modern infidelity has many expressions on the future after death which sound like the old Roman distich, "I was not, and became; I was, and am no more." The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index By way of signalizing their community of interest the Dioscuri presently began to write satirical distichs at the expense of men and tendencies that they did not like. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Perhaps the distich means something like 'on that day I would be filled with a pride which no ancestry, no matter how illustrious, could justify'. The Last Poems of Ovid Food.—Many articles of consumption, introduced in the reign of Henry VIII, the following distich embraces a few:— Turkey, carp, hops, pricard, and beer. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 533, February 11, 1832 On this Orlando went mad, and hung up his armor on a tree, with this distich attached thereto: Orlando's arms let none displace, But such who'll meet him face to face. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook We have made many distiches together; sometimes I gave the thought, and Schiller made the verse; sometimes the contrary was the case; sometimes he made one line, and I the other. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Sometimes one would suggest the topic and the other write the distich; again, one would do the hexameter, the other the pentameter. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The distich may be an interpolation, or at least deeply corrupted in its present form. The Last Poems of Ovid The poet roving about on a common one fine morning, falls into pensive musings on the fate of the sons of song, which he sums up in this fine distich. Famous Reviews In contempt Richard III. is called The Hog, hence the popular distich: The Cat, the Rat, and Lovell the dog, Rule all England, under the Hog. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook However, both hexameter or distich and sonnet have become, in Germany, pure literary forms of composition. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. The stanza containing the distich ends with a striking piece of realism: If a storm should come and awake the deep, What matter? Ponkapog Papers From such remarks proceeded that great number of sententious distichs, which have passed into conversation, and are added as proverbial axioms to the general stock of practical knowledge. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Hsiang-yün hastened to smilingly interpose with the distich: Its auspicious descent dispels the Emperor's grief. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books There were also several distiches running as follows: Thy self-esteem for kindly gentleness is but a fancy vain! Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books While in Italy the sonnet is still sung, we are filled with astonishment that Brahms should have set to music a distich—Anacreon. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. The well-known distich entitled 'My Creed' is representative of many which were directed against the spirit of blind partisanship: Which religion is mine? The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller He was so much struck and transported with admiration, that in the middle of the play, he started up, and repeated that distich. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Pao-ch'ai praised the verses again and again, and next contributed the distich: The twigs and branches live in fear of being tossed about. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books The distich by Lin Tai-yü on the tablet of "Spiritual stream outside the world," ran thus: Th' imperial visit doth enhance joy and delight. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books The pensive distichs, telling of the wanton doings of Amor amid the grandeur that was Rome, were a little shocking in their frank portraiture of the emancipated flesh. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Further illustration shall be dispensed with, seeing that the ancient distich is a poetic form for which the English language has, at the best, but little sympathy. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Here is an old distich which my dry diplomatist came out with yesterday at dinner, on the ancestor of Hampden. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Augustin caused to have written on the walls a distich, which ran thus: "He who takes pleasure in slandering the life of the absent, Should know he is unworthy to sit at this table." Saint Augustin This was the burden of the distich: Thy mate is like a savage wolf prowling among the hills; His wish once gratified a haughty spirit his heart fills! Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books A hundred hexameters, or fifty distichs, in a day, is generally considered a fair pensum for a boy of sixteen at a German gymnasium. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Nor can we extract much biographic interest from the later distichs and carmina which he turned out at school festivals. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller At the end are added two books of Xenia and Apophoreta, distichs written to go with the Christmas presents of all sorts which were interchanged at the festival of the Saturnalia. Latin Literature There is an echo of the Greek distich in Byron's exquisite line, "The Morning-Star of Memory." Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 Dryden afterwards changed his mind, and one of the excellences of his own rhymed verse is, that his sense is too ample to be concluded by the distich. Among My Books First Series Knowledge, wisdom, and enjoyment, each of which Koheleth characterises by a distich, are likewise vain, or worse. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Schiller did his task in Latin distichs which have been preserved. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The word elegeion means nothing more than the combination of a hexameter and a pentameter, making together a distich, and an elegy is a poem of such verses. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The poet was intrusted with the preparation of the Shah-Nameh, or Epic of Kings, for every one thousand distichs of which he was to receive a thousand pieces of gold. National Epics There was something congenial to the Roman spirit in the pithy distich or tetrastich which formed so considerable an element in the "elegant extracts" of Alexandria. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Again, all Agur's proverbs are in the form of strophes of six lines each; but this passage consists of five distichs. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur In December, 1795, Goethe suggested that they amuse themselves by making epigrams, in the style of Martial's 'Xenia', upon the various journals against which they had a grudge, devoting a distich to each. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The verse of eight syllables is the source of all other metres, and the sloka or double distich is the stanza most frequently used. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Every one of his brisk, nervous couplets carries a sting; every distich is a sound box on the ear. Palamon and Arcite There was also a distich directed by some poet of that age to Ben Johnson, Pray tell me, Ben, where does the mystery lurk? The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. This is the man of whom Queen Elizabeth made this enigmatical distich— 'The word of denial, and letter of fifty, Is that gentleman's name that will never be thrifty.' A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 It is very much the same story as the 'Dignity of Women', the distich form lending itself beautifully to those antitheses which were Schiller's delight. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The following distich shows what each forbodes:—'One sorrow, two mirth, three a wedding, four death.' Thaumaturgia A succession of rhymed pentameter couplets, with the sense complete in each couplet, was set forth as the proper vehicle for poetry; and this unenjambed distich fettered English verse for three-quarters of a century. Palamon and Arcite His discretion and general ability enabled him to retain the influence which he had early acquired, as is shown by a popular distich of that time. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 The river is bordered with Lata, a fine gramineous plant with distich leaves, which sometimes reaches the height of thirty feet.* Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Even his intimates were ignorant of the fact that he had a skeleton in his cupboard, his Kasîdah or distichs. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi With reverence to great Caesar, worthy Romans, Observe but this ridiculous commenter; The soul 'to my device was in this distich: Thus oft, the base and ravenous multitude Survive, to share the spoils of fortitude. The Poetaster In this poem, as in the bulk of his work, he employs the unenjambed pentameter distich; that is, a couplet with five accented syllables in each verse and with the sense terminating with the couplet. Palamon and Arcite Ukleet nodded at him, and repeated the distich: Men of worth and men of wits Shoot with two arrows, and make two hits. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith Ukleet nodded at him, and repeated the distich: Men of worth and men of wits Shoot with two arrows, and make two hits. The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete One of his omitted distichs says: Race makes religion; true! but aye upon the Maker acts the made, A finite God, and infinite sin, in lieu of raising man, degrade. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi Ukleet nodded at him, and repeated the distich: Men of worth and men of wits Shoot with two arrows, and make two hits. The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 Marinist quaintness still clings here and there, and he has temporarily deserted the classical distich for a quatrain stanza; but here, for the first time, we taste the Dryden of the Satires and the Fables. Palamon and Arcite What is Italy to the man who cannot share our feelings as we murmur that distich? The Emancipated Why was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first distich? Ulysses This distich is printed in the life of King James. Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects We all know that very clever distich concerning the great fleas and the little fleas which tells us that no animal is too humble to have its parasite. The Duke's Children The great danger that attends the use of the distich is monotony; but Dryden avoided this. Palamon and Arcite Hence a host of secondary meanings as a book of Odes with distichs rhymed in alphabetical order and so forth. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 A Persian distich says: If folk be scarce as food in dearth ne'er let three lots come near ye: First Sindi, second Jat, and third a rascally Kashmeeree. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 Whereon she turned her face and looking at me, straightway made answer with this distich, 'A trifle this an his eyes be sore, * When her eyes say 'yes' to his love's caprice!' The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 When Kanmakan heard these distichs his sorrows surged up; his tears ran down his cheeks like freshets and flames of fire darted into his heart. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 His last distich bearing on Hard Cash is worth recording. Hard Cash Was it worth while, in short, noble Porthos, to heap so much gold, and not have even the distich of a poor poet engraven upon thy monument? The Man in the Iron Mask The king, on his side, was in a similarly poetical mood, and had made a distich; while La Valliere, delighting in poetry, as most women do who are in love, had composed two sonnets. Louise de la Valliere Then she carolled various pieces to rare measures, and amongst the rest one of mine, which consisted of this distich, 'Bare hills and campground desolate * And friends who all have ganged their gait. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 He! no, indeed; a man who makes districts—distichs I mean—at fifteen francs! Ten Years Later He has about ten distichs of Hudibras without book, and never leaves the club till he has applied them all. Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer They were a set of carving-tools, well made, and highly polished; and there was a scrap of paper with this distich: "We are Hillsborough made, Both haft and blade." Put Yourself in His Place There was a still more unfortunate distich, which at the time attracted little notice, but which, a few months later, was remembered and malignantly interpreted. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 One of the distichs is translated from some old Latin lines; the other is original. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Because, in my opinion, the crime of the man who writes a distich is not so great as that of the man who resembles—" "Yes, yes; I understand you. Ten Years Later He is said to have got more by this distich than Mr. Dryden did by all his works. Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer And, finally, contemporary history was now treated in hexameters or distichs, sometimes in a narrative and sometimes in a panegyrical style, but most commonly to the honour of some prince or princely family. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy He recited the distichs where Goethe has related in a tongue worthy of Homer or Lucretius the metamorphosis of the plants. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels All our readers have doubtless seen the two distichs of Sir William Jones, respecting the division of the time of a lawyer. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 "Well, if had any curiosity, it would be to see the poor author of the distich." Ten Years Later The young scholar capped her distich forthwith, and bowing to her with a meaning look, "'Then, Goddess, turn,' he cried, 'and veil thy light; Blinded by thine, what eyes can choose aright?'" Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth When the Venetian government paid Sannazaro 600 ducats for a eulogy in three distichs, no one thought it an act of generous prodigality. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy As a Persian distich, quoted by Vambery, has it— "They came, conquered, burned, pillaged, murdered, and went." Russia "Well, if I had any curiosity, it would be to see the poor author of the distich." Ten Years Later At all events, since you yourself admit you have done nothing but write that unhappy distich—" "But without any intention, I swear. Ten Years Later At all events, since you yourself admit you have done nothing but write that unhappy distich——" "But without any intention, I swear. Ten Years Later Pius II enumerates with satisfaction the distichs which his chief poet Campanus wrote on any event of his government which could be turned to poetical account. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Because, in my opinion, the crime of the man who writes a distich is not so great as that of the man who resembles——" "Yes, yes, I understand you. Ten Years Later He! no, indeed; a man who makes districts—distichs, I mean—at fifteen francs! Ten Years Later |
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