"Distich" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... very obscure. As old Fuller says, the writers have a hair hanging to the nib of their pen. Their shortness does not prevent them from being tiresome. They recall the French wit to whom a friend showed a distich: "Excellent," he said; "but isn't it ...
— Studies in Literature • John Morley
... used are the elegiac distich (most frequent), scazons, and hendecasyllabics. In vi. 65 he apologizes for using the pure hexameter, which is found only four times. ...
— The Student's Companion to Latin Authors • George Middleton
... sir! for God's-sake where 'a the affront to you? Against your worship when had Selkirk writ? Or Page pour'd forth the torrent of his wit? Or grant the bard[217] whose distich all commend 160 'In power a servant, out of power a friend,' To Walpole guilty of some venial sin; What's that to you who ne'er was ...
— The Poetical Works Of Alexander Pope, Vol. 1 • Alexander Pope et al
... direction of General Wade, in grateful commemoration of its benefits, placed a stone seat on the top of a hill, where the weary traveler may repose, after the labour of his ascent, and on which is judiciously inscribed, Rest, and be thankful. It has, also, the following sublime distich: ...
— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various
... she laughed, with a tolerant protest in her voice, "you keep up the credit of your house right nobly. How goes the distich? My mother taught it me upon the bridge of Avignon, where also as here in Scotland ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
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