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Definition of Dactylics
1. dactylic [n] - See also: dactylic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dactylics
Literary usage of Dactylics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political & Satirical by George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis, William Gifford (1852)
"Seing the quintessence of all the dactylics that ever were, ... Sorely thy
dactylics lag on uneven feet: Slow is the syllable which thou wouldst urge to ..."
2. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin (1807)
"Our Author's dactylics have produced a second imitation (conveyed to us from an
unknown ... Being the quintessence of all the dactylics that ever were, ..."
3. Parodies and Other Burlesque Pieces by George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis (1890)
"Sorely thy dactylics lag on uneven feet: Slow is the syllable which thou would'st
urge to ... dactylics, call'st thou 'em ? " God help thee, silly one! ..."
4. The Grammar of English Grammars: With an Introduction, Historical and by Goold Brown (1858)
"impeaches all dactylics, ho has made very badly—very prosaically; ... гс dactylics.
Tho last оно is purely anapestic. All the divisional bars, ..."
5. English Metrists by Thomas Stewart Omond (1903)
"The volume of 1797 contains the accentual " Sapphics " and "dactylics" satirised
by the Anti-jacobin, There are also four sapphic stanzas in The Curse of ..."
6. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1847)
"And it really grieves us to find, at this time of day, at p. 103, a production,
in Portman-street, of such dactylics, to the tune of the ..."
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