Word: coupleteer
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...clock to hear Mr. Billyer, who has just been recommended as Professor of English to the regents of Trinity for next year. English 16 is his course on the history and principles of English versification, and his lecture this afternoon will be on the heroic couplet. There is doubt in my mind, however, for Professor Whitehead scholar and philosopher from England, is giving one of the King's Chapel lectures at 2.30 o'clock. It will be given in King's Chapel, being the fourth and last of the series on religion. Today's subject has been announced as "Truth...
...accident that a football Captain happened to have a nice taste-in verse. And that season poetry became popular and quite the thing to do. But the risk is too great. Another century may elapse before there comes again to college one who can turn an end and a couplet...
...between the literature of today and that of the eighteenth century, which makes the similarity of this age and that of Pope nothing more than a one-sided resemblance. The neoclassical age was preeminently an age of form. Today the fashion runs to formlessness. Instead of the stately heroic couplet, poetry now flies to the freedom of vers libre. Instead of the terse, direct prose of Swift, satire now expresses itself in the genial lunacy of Donald Ogden Stewart or Ronald Fairbank...
...striven and failed, and perceive by his labored breathing and frequent potations of ice-water that the end is not far off. Then it is that he truly comes into his own. His racquet twangs like an embowered guitar; his serve crashes over with the sonorous finality of the couplet concluding a soliloquy in an Elizabethan play. Next day he reads...
Here is a little couplet that occurred to me and struck me as possibly serviceable for use on your title page or elsewhere...