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Last year someone contributed a sonnet called 'Truth. No one could see much sense in it until some smart chap discovered that the first letters of each line spelled 'The Bulletin is Punk. Now when you want anything printed in the Bulletin you have to send a sworn statement that there isn't an acrostic concealed in it.
You soon get wise to the way that people think who make them; and then you'll find they all think alike and all try to hoodwink you along the same lines. If you tempt me on to acrostics, you'll soon wish you had not." Mark pointed to the puzzle. "Try that," he said. "I can't make head or tail of it; yet I dare say you'll thrash it out if you've got the acrostic mind." Mr.
There were several satires and panegyrics handed about in an acrostic, by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts, and to set up for polite authors. I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit, in which a writer does not show himself a man of a beautiful genius, but of great industry.
"Nabucodonosor" was his first hit, and in the next year "I Lombardi" was even more successful partly owing to the revolutionary feeling which in no small degree was to help him to his future high position. Indeed, his name was a useful acrostic to the revolutionary party, who shouted "Viva Verdi," when they meant "Viva Vittorio Emanuele Re D' Italia."
They are identical in number of verses and in structure, both being acrostic, that is to say, the first clause of each commences with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the second clause with the second, and so on. The general idea that runs through them is the likeness of the godly man to God.
Write, write it in your memory 'I am not a human being I have no pretension to be a human being I am a dive, a dream, an angel, an acrostic, an illusion what you please, but not a human being. And so accept my humble salutations and farewell!" And with that the Doctor made off along the street in some emotion, and the boy stood, mentally gaping, where he left him.
"Him they make a Rabbi and give him the right of answering questions, and he know no more of Judaism," the patriotic poet paused to take a bite out of his ham-sandwich, "than a cow of Sunday. I lof his daughter and I tell him so and he tells me she lof another. But I haf held him up on the point of my pen to the contempt of posterity. I haf written an acrostic on him; it is terrible.
'The affair arranges itself admirably. And he would be 'always on hand. What is arranging itself?... And why should Jimmy Devar be ready, if need be, 'to turn up exactly at the right moment? I suppose the answer to the first bit of the acrostic is simple enough. Cynthia Vanrenen is to become the Countess Marigny, and the Devar gang stands in on the cash proceeds. Oh, a nice scheme!
"If I take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth, there will albums be." To Southey he writes about this time, "I have gone lately into the acrostic line. I find genius declines with me; but I get clever."
The simple acrostic is nothing but the name or title of a person, or thing, made out of the initial letters of several verses, and by that means written, after the manner of the Chinese, in a perpendicular line. But besides these there are compound acrostics, when the principal letters stand two or three deep.
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