couplet

• The main doors of Chinese homes would have what is called a couplet (paired set of Chinese characters wishing the family good luck for the year), something like the one below: —  WordPress.com News
• It is as though we said, 'Give us Peace, because thou hast the power; and we trust no other power This couplet was the Antiphon, in the Day Hours, to both the collects for Peace; and must be taken as including both peace from "the assaults of our enemies," and "that peace which the world cannot give." —  The Prayer Book Explained
• Of course there is the famous couplet which is said to have been the text of all his sermons Whaune Adam dalf and Eve span Who was thane a gentilman? —  Mediaeval Socialism
• The lines on Sir John Burroughs contain a couplet which is wonderfully close to Wordsworth's "Happy Warrior His rage was tempered well, no fear could daunt His reason_, his cold blood was valiant cf. "Who in the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made Earle's standard in poetry was high. —  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
• Sometimes it is a tag, or a line, or a couplet which is taken, but the borrowings are woven into the context with some skill. —  The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature

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