Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1890 - 864 páginas |
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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 us back Macbeth , Othello , Lear . Delight to thousands oft thou gav'st , and now Years of calm lettered ease ' tis thine to know . LONGFELLOW . Lays like thine have many a charm ; O ft thy themes the heart must warm . Now o'er ...
... give us back Macbeth , Othello , Lear . Delight to thousands oft thou gav'st , and now Years of calm lettered ease ' tis thine to know . LONGFELLOW . Lays like thine have many a charm ; O ft thy themes the heart must warm . Now o'er ...
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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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... give To unrecovered loss : we rather breathe than live . WE SPEND A ten years ' breath Before we apprehend What ' tis to live in fear of death ; Our childish dreams are filled with painted joys Which please our sense , and waking prove ...
... give To unrecovered loss : we rather breathe than live . WE SPEND A ten years ' breath Before we apprehend What ' tis to live in fear of death ; Our childish dreams are filled with painted joys Which please our sense , and waking prove ...
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