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The destinies of old put poverty upon him as a punishment; since when, poetry and beggary are Gemelli, twin-born brats, inseparable companions;

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

"In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love," and everywhere, if poetry and song be not indeed the very offspring of love, they are at least twin-born with it.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

The various compounds known as champagne, port, sherry, brandy, &c., having been very freely distributed, Captain Pepperwell made a proposition that will so intimately connect his name with that of the immortal Marquess, that, like the twin-born of Jupiter and Leda, to mention one will be to imply the other.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 Various

Melancholy was, indeed, twin-born in my soul with passion; and, not even in the fullest fervour of the latter were they separated.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 Various

Leda with him, honoring me no less than the twin-born of Jove.

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

The imagined, retrospect childhood of the past is twin-born with the ideal, prospective childhood of the world to come.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

The eldest son is Sigmund, twin-born with his sister Signy.

The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914

Couch’d to bring forth the twin-born eyes of Heaven.

Purgatory. Canto XX 1909

Heaven's first darling, twin-born with the morning light, you have floated down the stream of the world's life, and at last you have stranded on my heart.

The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1901

That the Gods were but twin-born once, and deemed it nothing wrong

Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas 1894