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Pope abounds in quotable things, chiefly from his habit of making every line rest on its own merits a circumstance that accounts, in its turn, for the strong resemblance his couplets bear to each other.
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Write with your spade, and garden with your pen, Shove your couplets to their long repose. And type your turnips down the field in rows.

(Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie Campbell

— 1931  'The Georgiad', pt.2.

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Anon, as patient as the female dove, When that her golden couplets are disclosed, His silence will sit drooping.

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— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act V, scene 1, line 309.

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Poetic trifles from solitary rambles whilst chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy..now written from memory, confined to fourteen lines, this seemed best adapted to the unity of sentiment, the verse flowed in unpremeditated harmony as my ear directed but are far from being mere elegiac couplets.

william lisle bowles

— From Preface to The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 - With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan (1855) Ballantyne & Co , Edinburgh , kindle ebook edition ASIN B0082VAFKO

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