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Definition of Alcaics
1. alcaic [n] - See also: alcaic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alcaics
Literary usage of Alcaics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of by Robert Frederick Brewer (1893)
"alcaics. Repeated and followed by Canning. O might | y mouth'd | in | ventor of |
harmonies, O skilled \ to sing | of | Time or E ..."
2. English Poems by Harry Gilbert Paul (1908)
"55 MILTON (alcaics) O MIGHTY-MOUTH'D inventor of harmonies, O skill'd to sing of
Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, ..."
3. Poets on Poets by Jane Maria Grant Strachey (1894)
"... A million wrinkles carved upon his skin ; A hundred winters snow'd upon his
breast, From cheek and throat and chin. alcaics. [1863 Milton. ..."
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