Meanings (ES + gloss)
acróstico
A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
On this monument is a long epitaph in verse, which is printed in Prince's Worthies. It is an acrostic, the first letters of each line forming the words "Oliver Hill of Shilston."
There is a most crying dullness on both sides. I have seen tory acrostics and whig anagrams, and do not quarrel with either of them, because they are whigs or tories, but because t…
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