"Distich" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of compression and brevity in narration, unattainable in any language but the Greek, the following distich was quoted: ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge
... companion to shame. The people of Holbein's day not only saw in this subject the beginning of that toil which is the lot of humankind, but, as they looked upon the common ancestors of all men, laboring for the means of life, they asked, in the words of an old distich,— ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various
... fine print of the elder Bobart, now extremely scarce, "D. Loggan del., M. Burghers, sculp." It is a quarto of the largest size. Beneath the head, which is dated 1675, is this distich: ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 • Various
... opera-bouffe, To-morrow breakfasts with burlesque, And tights and tinsel, face to face, Encounters, pink and picturesque. Nor frown, if, in next week's review, His gropings after the artistic Should crop out into verse, and take The form of some SWINBURNIAN distich. ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 39., Saturday, December 24, 1870. • Various
... distich, in which another poet of beautiful talents has attempted to depreciate a name, to which, probably, few of his readers are ...
— An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition • Adam Ferguson, L.L.D.
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