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He then clapped his hands, and immediately that noisy clattering child-like band struck up, and over a hundred little fellows, who had got off their horses and out of the carriages, danced as the avant-courier had done, sometimes on their heads, sometimes on their feet, in the prettiest possible trochees, spondees, iambics, pyrrhics, anapaests, tribrachs, bacchi, antibacchi, choriambs, and dactyls, so that it was a joy to behold them.
"For the Pyrrhics of past days we have Empirics now. Our phalanxes of old have been led to victory by militia Colonels, who sprang from the thinking head of the people, glowing with the sacred fire of their cause.
Standing on his head there, he galloped backwards, forwards, and sideways in all sorts of extraordinary curves and ups and downs, his feet meanwhile playing trochees, dactyls, pyrrhics, &c., in the air.
With some it is doubtless innate; with the great mass, it is a matter of education, such as is acquired from moving among men." "We have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is our Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons why forget The nobler and the manlier one?" broke in our Poetical Lieutenant. "D n your Pyrrhics," retorted the Adjutant, snappishly.
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