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  • The Epigram is a verse saying, of a few lines in length, in which two lines (not necessarily consecutive) are capable of standing by themselves as a unit proverb.

    Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886

  • War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815/1812.6 "Epigram"

    Epigram 1812

  • War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815/1808.8 "[Epigram]"

    [Epigram] 1808

  • Compare Moore's "Epigram:" "'I want the Court Guide,' said my lady, 'to look If the House, Seymour Place, be at 30 or 20,'" etc.

    The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815/1794.18 "Epigram"

    Epigram Anonymous 1794

  • An Epitaph is but a kind of Epigram only applied to the report of the dead persons estate and degree, or of his other good or bad partes, to his commendation or reproch: and is an inscription such as a man may commodiously write or engraue vpon a tombe in few verses, pithie, quicke and sententious for the passer by to peruse, and iudge vpon without any long tariaunce: So as if it exceede the measure of an Epigram, it is then

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • The Epigram upon the Translation of the Farmer's Boy into Latin is well pointed.

    Critical Review, 35 (May 1802), 67–75 2009

  • Then came Mandelstam ' s 16-line satirical poem, " Stalin ' s Epigram, " the ransacking of the couple ' s Moscow apartment, arrests and exiles.

    Indelible Portraits Of Women Stacy Schiff 2010

  • The piece I coveted most was the endtable, “The endtable to end all tables,” or “Epigram,” designed by Milton Glaser.

    Buzzine » Green With Music 2009

  • And I so love the Epigram where he offers to keep the corpse and bury the woman alive.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Robert Burns, 1759-1796 tanita davis 2008

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