| "... a poet should take particular care to guard himself against — ways of speaking" (Addison, The Spectator) |
IDIOMATIC |
| A French (or Italian?) work of fiction |
ROMAN |
| A pagan, I am included in Shaw's people |
GENTILE |
| Anderson's Captain from the seven seas, heroically drawn |
ASHER |
| Another name for Shaw |
ROSS |
| Arrogant weaver from a people round Honduras |
ARACHNE |
| Article she enclosed to doctor in council at Jerusalem |
SANHEDRIN |
| Attic potter from Green's home |
HERMOGENES |
| Bible singer compared his love's eyes to its fishpools |
HESHBON |
| Chronicler of Pilgrims' Progress |
CHAUCER |
| Cruel Macedonian king names leading sort of beer all over America |
ARCHELAUS |
| Fielding's diarist to go over on a T-crossing |
BRIDGET |
| He always has a word for it |
ROGET |
| He anatomised the absurd |
NASHE |
| He struck first. Maybe very nearly serve us ill |
SERVILIUS |
| Hippo man, left confessions |
AUGUSTINE |
