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单词 strong lines
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strong lines
strong lines n. Obsolete obscure or bombastic writing.Originally with reference to fashions of the late 1620s onwards in verse and preaching.
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1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving 29 [Amp.:] I pray you view these lines. You will confesse they are strong lines. [Phil.:] I haue heard of strong lines, admited by weake iudgements, and derided by the iudicious.
1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy iii. 38 Answer me In strong Lines, y'are best.
a1631 J. Downe Certaine Treat. (1633) 65 [Some preachers] hunt after I knowe not what new fangled and quaint phrases, and as they tearme them, strong lines.
1678 T. Rawlins Tunbridge-Wells sig. A2v A conceited Rhimer, that strains his fancy beyond his Judgment, and Writes Nonsence for strong Lines.
1717 T. Purney Full Enq. True Nature of Pastoral 5 As for the Strong Lines, 'tis supplying the want of the Sublime with the Courtly and Florid Stile.
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