"Discoursive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Poesy," "the help it brings to memory, which rhyme so knits up by the affinity of sound, that by remembering the last word in one line, we often call to mind both the verses." Then, in the quickness of repartees (which in discoursive scenes fall very often) it has, he says, so particular a grace, and is so aptly united to them, that the sudden smartness of the answer, and the exactness of the rhyme, set off the beauty of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various |
