LOTTA is lithe; (which is alliterative,) pretty, piquant, and addicted to the banjo.

And among those "fellows fearce and freshe for feight," of whom the quaint old alliterative ballad describes the array:- "A stock of striplings strong of heart, Brought up from babes with beef and bread, From Warton unto Warrington From Wigan unto Wiresdale" and, from a long list of the hills, and cloughs, and old towns of the countythe bowmen of Lancashire did their share of work upon that field.

When "The Paetolian" has paid you for a copy of verses,(I can furnish you a list of alliterative signatures, beginning with Annie Aureole and ending with Zoë Zenith,)when

The poem is written in part in alliterative lines on the Anglo-Saxon system, in part in rhymed couplets of unequal length.

In other instances the texts consist of alliterative prose, which proves its earlier metrical form.

The entire poem is in strongly accented, alliterative lines, something like Beowulf, and its immense popularity shows that the common people still cherished this easily memorized form of Saxon poetry.

It should be noticed that the poem employs the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

It is a proverb, that he who is a fool at forty will be a fool at fourscore; yet Mr. Cushing, who is certainly no fool, had been blind to the beauties of Original Democracy for a year or two beyond that alliterative era.

" "An alliterative amusement," said Mrs. Laudersdale.

As regards SWINBURNE'S conduct of The British Weekly, it is enough to point to such alliterative and melodious combinations as "Rambling Remarks" and "Claudius Clear."

The Anglo-Saxon poetry, for example, had been rhythmical and alliterative.

The old English alliterative verse continued, indeed, in occasional use to the 16th century.

Layamon's Brut is in thirty thousand lines, partly alliterative and partly rhymed, but written in pure Saxon English with hardly any French words.

[Footnote 6: Branch.] About the middle of the 14th century there was a revival of the Old English alliterative verse in romances like William and the Werewolf, and Sir Gawayne, and in religious pieces such as Clannesse (purity), Patience, and The Perle, the last named a mystical poem of much beauty, in which a bereaved father sees a vision of his daughter among the glorified.

But the most important of the alliterative poems was the Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman.

As we advance into the sixth and seventh centuries, we find English monks attempting to reproduce the characteristics of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse in Latin; and at the Court of Charlemagne we find an Irish monk writing Latin verse in a long trochaic line, which is native in Irish poetry.

Ten Old English poems put into modern alliterative verse.

Translated into alliterative verse with a critical introd.

Translated into alliterative verse with a critical introd.

He wrote a large number of treatises and poems, both in Latin and English, lyrical songs and alliterative homilies, burning spiritual rhapsodies and sound practical sermons, all of which were widely known and read.

There is a mystical strain in other writings of this time, the most notable from the point of view of literature being in the fourteenth-century alliterative poem of Piers the Plowman.

After a year, those months of petty detail might be wiped out entirely without changing the general trend of eventsand such a time was the winter that saw "Dill and Bill," as one alliterative mind called them, in possession of the Double-Crank.

Herford, on the other hand, while having recourse to Chancer's influence to explain Spenser's anomalies, regards the metre in question as derived from the old alliterative line.

The alliterative line may be readily traced in the mystery cycles, and later influenced the verse of the interludes and such comedies as Royster Doyster; and this tradition may have affected the verse of the later poets of the school of Lydgate, and even the popular ideas concerning Chaucer's metre.

This curious work, in rude alliterative verse (for rhyme was introduced in England only after the Norman Conquest), is the most valuable old English manuscript in the British Museum.