Read full poem →Editorial comment in entries of this class is either enclosed in
round brackets, as above, or set in "italic" type, as in this
entry:
Dictionary Entry
A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
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Common Phrases
type italic. italicletters italicnumbers italicrefer italictext italicitalic bolditalic en
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Poetry examples for “italic”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The House of Fame and the Legend of Good Women (in vol. iii.) are denoted
by 'HF.' and 'L.' respectively. If, in the latter case, the italic letter
'_a_' follows the number of the line, the reference is to the earlier (or
Read full poem →Text which was italic in the original is marked _thus_. Small capital
text has been changed to all capital.
Read full poem →obvious misprints, and followed them also, as far as possible, in their
distribution of roman and italic type and in the grouping of words and
lines in the various titles. To follow them exactly was impossible, as
Read full poem →This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects.
Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_.