 | Ireland - 1843 - 450 pages
...Saxon poetry, which is almost, if not entirely, unknown to modern metre ; and this was alliteration, or the repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words in the same line, which letter serves as the initial in the marking word of the next line. This peculiarity,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...forefathers, in that long series, have degenerated into honor and virtue. Lvm. AlilTERATION. Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the beginning...immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals ; as, bug-bear, sea-sick, and the f and g in the following line : Fields ever fresh, and groves for... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...and virtue. Lvm. ALLITERATION. Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the begin ning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals ; as, bug-bear, sea-sick, and the / and g in the following line : And the I in the following : Love... | |
 | Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - English language - 1847 - 242 pages
...expectation darkened into anxiety, anxiety into dread, and dread into despair."—Irving, Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the beginning...immediately succeeding each other. or at short intervals. EXAMPLEs—" Up the Aigh Aill Ae Aeaves a Auge, round stone." " He carves with classic chisel the Corinthian... | |
 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 816 pages
...A striking against. ALLITEBATION, ál-lit'ér-a'shnn, [L. al for ad, to, and litera, a letter,! n. The repetition of the same letter at the beginning...succeeding each other, or at short intervals. ALLITERATIVE, al-lît'^r-â-tïv.o. Pertaining to, or consisting in, alliteration. ALLIUM, àl'lti-nni, n. A genus... | |
 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 790 pages
...n. A striking against. ALLITEEATION, al-lit'eV-a'shan, [L. al for ad, to, and litera, a letter,! n. The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each uther, or at short intervals. ALLITERATIVE, al-lIt'er-A-tlv.a. Pertaining to, orconsisting in, alliteration.... | |
 | William Colgrove Kenyon - English language - 1849 - 352 pages
...darkened into anxiety, anxiety inlo »iu: vn, and dread into DKSI'AUl. DEFINITION 15.~-Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the beginning...immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals. EXAMPLES. Up the high till he leaves a /tnge round stono. He carves, with classic chisel, the Corinthian... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1850 - 466 pages
...forefathers, in that long series, have degenerated into honor and virtue. LVIH. ALLITERATION. Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the beginning...immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals ; as, bug-bear, sea-sick, and the / and g in the following line : And the I in the following : Love... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...forefathers, in that long series, have degenerated into honor and virtue. Lvm. ALLITERATION. Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the beginning...immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals ; as, bug-bear, sea-sick, and the / and g in the following line : And the l in the following : Love... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...forefathers, in that long series, have degenerated into honor and virtue. Lvm. ALLITERATION. Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the begin-ning...immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as, bug-bear, sea-sick, and the / and g in the following line : And the / in the following: Love laughs... | |
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Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the begin-ning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals... 
