Word: couplets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard University graduates a Robert Treat Paine. The quinquennial catalogue lists seven: in 1749, 1779, 1822, 1855, 1882, 1888, 1922. First and most famed was Robert Treat Paine who signed the Declaration of Independence. His son and namesake became a poet. From the day he answered in couplet the satirical thrust of a classmate "his blessed ruin was inevitable." He fell in with a theatrical company. His father threw him out of the house when he married the leading lady. He took to drink, drifted into poverty, died in the attic of his father's house. The best Bostonians...
...original poem has only sixty-two words in two aaba quatrains and a concluding couplet. It may be translated without rhyme thus...
...fire, jesting and arguing noisily, were gentlemen of the age of the sun king, respondent in satin and silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself with a pinch while another recited to him an original couplet on the king's new mistress. They were a statesman, a wit, a playwright, a poet, a churchman, gorgeous figures...
What else is left for the Sophomore President, the Junior President, the Senior President, and all their co-incumbents to do? I think this is an excellent time to abolish an outgrown sinecure. Henceforth let us bouquet our friends, not with ballots, but with the Heroic Couplet and the Shakespearian Sonnet if need be! Eugene Du Bois...
Every child knows the couplet...