Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 páginas |
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... Give the devil his due . Scribblings on window - glass - The embassador's delicate flattery . Cowper's conversion of uncomplimentary designations into compliments at an evening party . - The Catholic's reply to the Protes tant ...
... Give the devil his due . Scribblings on window - glass - The embassador's delicate flattery . Cowper's conversion of uncomplimentary designations into compliments at an evening party . - The Catholic's reply to the Protes tant ...
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... give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more . Let every book - worm , when in any fragrant scarce old tome he discovers a sentence , a story , an illustration , that does his heart good , hasten to give it ...
... give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more . Let every book - worm , when in any fragrant scarce old tome he discovers a sentence , a story , an illustration , that does his heart good , hasten to give it ...
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... give me a black wal- nut box of quite a small size . The stanza subjoined is a specimen of both lipogrammatic and pangrammatic ingenuity , containing every letter of the alphabet except e . Those who remember that e is the most ...
... give me a black wal- nut box of quite a small size . The stanza subjoined is a specimen of both lipogrammatic and pangrammatic ingenuity , containing every letter of the alphabet except e . Those who remember that e is the most ...
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... give King William III . an address of welcome , ut- tered the following equivocal compliment : - " Future ages , recording your Majesty's exploits , will pro- nounce you to have been a Nero ! ” Mrs. Crawford says she wrote one line in ...
... give King William III . an address of welcome , ut- tered the following equivocal compliment : - " Future ages , recording your Majesty's exploits , will pro- nounce you to have been a Nero ! ” Mrs. Crawford says she wrote one line in ...
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... give . Curses of ages will attend your name , Traitors alone will glory in your shame . A lmighty vengeance sternly waits to roll Rivers of sulphur on your treacherous soul : Nature looks shuddering back with conscious dread On such a ...
... give . Curses of ages will attend your name , Traitors alone will glory in your shame . A lmighty vengeance sternly waits to roll Rivers of sulphur on your treacherous soul : Nature looks shuddering back with conscious dread On such a ...
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