10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISTICH»
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Distich for Disturbed Districts
A. DISTICH. FOR. DISTURBED. DISTRICTS. We join the crowd of worshippers,
Enter the narrow door, We gain the threshold of our church, Where mingle rich
and poor. How daintin we tread the aisle And scan the decorations, Compose our
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Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide to Astrological, Biblical, ...
The Miller paraphrases Distich 11.2; Mt'llT3163—3164; variations appear in
MillT3454, 3558. John the Carpenter is untaught and does not know Cato,
MillT3227. The Miller quotes from Cato, MillT 3229-3232; this quotation is not
found in Cato ...
Jacqueline de Weever, 2014
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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings
Each distich begins with a capital initial. The unusual care taken in spacing
between the last word of a distich and the following capital initial, as well as the
consistent pointing between distichs, suggests that the scribe was mindful of the
visual ...
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Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse
I. 18, uses layout to highlight both verse form and alphabetic acrostic, beginning
each distich on a fresh line with a coloured initial. The hurried and occasionally
careless scribe of CUL, Kk. 5. 16 is exceptionally careful with Bede's hymn (86v-
...
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, 1990
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Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter ...
'Quociens Marie nomen nominatur, tociens caterua de- monum fugatur' (
monostich); 'Congnatum fra- tremque cane carumque sodalem' (3 lines); 'Retro
rodentes et coram bland a loquentes' (distich); 'Portatur leuiter quod portal
quisque ...
6
The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic
In the game of Distich two players alternately divide a pile of chips, selected from
a group of n piles, into two unequal piles.7 The last player who can perform this
division is declared the winner. Strategy for Distich evidently follows the rule of ...
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Propertius: "love" and "war" : Individual and State Under ...
For Housman, in his line-to-line procedure, looked back only one distich (35/36),
then diagnosed that the couplet 37/38 "has no relation to the sentences around it"
. Thus he tore a distich (3.9. 33f.) out of the third book and transplanted it into ...
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The man of many devices, who wandered full many ways--: ...
... sort of layout is necessary. A second, more difficult problem in 15813 is the
distich, which begins immediately on fol. 101 v. In other manuscripts where it
appears, the distich comes at the very end of the entire presentation, just after the
litany.
Balázs Nagy, Marcell Sebők, 1999
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The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and Its Meanings
In the literature of antiquity, of course, the elegiac distich was hardly a minor form.
To today's readers, the term "elegy" usually connotes death (or, more generally,
loss), but the traditional elegiac distich had a far broader range of thematic and ...
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Selected Writings: Poetry of grammar and grammar of poetry
The following distich returns to the pentasyllabic pattern of the final hemistich, but
in 8 nonetheless it maintains the heptasyllabic scheme of the initial hemistich, as
prompted by lines 6 and 7, while restoring its hexasyllabic measure in 9.
Roman Jakobson, Stephen Rudy, 1981
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISTICH»
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He believes that Sufism is unambiguously humanistic term in a distich. The saint simplifies this idea in the verse which has fascinated millions who are keen to ... «Kashmir Images, May 15»
Book Excerpts: The Spirit Of Indian Painting
One does not know if this painting is based on a specific verse, but a closely related work has a distich in Hindi written on verso: 'Yaad aavai ... «Livemint, Nov 14»
New County Commissioner McKinlay pledges western focus
McKinlay on Tuesday won a three-way race to replace term-limited County Commissioner Jess Santamaria in the Distich 6 seat that represents ... «Sun Sentinel, Nov 14»
The Hound and the Horn
“In the mood of Plato's distich it bids farewell to a land whose long familiar contours have ceased to stir creative thought: it bids farewell—and ... «Harvard Crimson, Oct 13»
India To Set Up Ultra Mega Solar Power Plant — 4000 MW Capacity
Property on same Budaun – Farrukhabad National Highway. 3Km. Distance from budaun distich (Connecting Highways and Route). Mahendra «CleanTechnica, Sep 13»
Dons clash over Shakespeare film
The key to which is found in the second line of the Latin distich above the sixaine, which is the only line that is inset. It consists of 35 letters ... «Cherwell Online, Sep 11»
Iran: Land of Science, Arts and Culture: The Unrivaled Legacy of …
He always considered himself a student whose knowledge is incomplete and imperfect. In a famous distich, he described himself this way:. «Center for Research on Globalization, Aug 10»
William Logan STRANGE FLESH By William Logan
His visceral distaste for ingratiating sentiment can't help coming across at times as wiseguy archness (when he gets off a smart-aleck distich ... «New York Times, Dec 08»
Stephen Burt
Three of Bidart's seven books include versions or imitations of the same Latin distich, Catullus 85: 'Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris ... «London Review of Books, Oct 08»
