Alexandrian Rules

Famous quotes containing the words alexandrian and/or rules:

“This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)