Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 páginas |
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... languages , and stolen the scraps . LOVE'S LABOR LOST . There's no want of meat , sir ; portly and curious viands are prepared to please all kinds of appetites . MASSINGER . A dinner of fragments is said often to be the best dinner . So ...
... languages , and stolen the scraps . LOVE'S LABOR LOST . There's no want of meat , sir ; portly and curious viands are prepared to please all kinds of appetites . MASSINGER . A dinner of fragments is said often to be the best dinner . So ...
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... language spelled backwards the same as för- wards , although every language offers facilities for reversible lines or verses . Specimens of the palindromic writing of literary triflers.- Sometimes called Sotatic verse , from Sotades ...
... language spelled backwards the same as för- wards , although every language offers facilities for reversible lines or verses . Specimens of the palindromic writing of literary triflers.- Sometimes called Sotatic verse , from Sotades ...
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... language with an- other said to bear the same relation to literature that opera bouffe does to music . Dr. Maginn's pleasant expedient of translating alternate lines of a favorite poem , as a sort of burlesque on its stately march . FEW ...
... language with an- other said to bear the same relation to literature that opera bouffe does to music . Dr. Maginn's pleasant expedient of translating alternate lines of a favorite poem , as a sort of burlesque on its stately march . FEW ...
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... language . -The Hebrew appellations of Deity in the Old Testament , and their distinctive points . - Frequent use of the name of the Divine Being in Shakspeare's works . - The emblematic Sun of the Parsee , the Jehovah Adonai of the ...
... language . -The Hebrew appellations of Deity in the Old Testament , and their distinctive points . - Frequent use of the name of the Divine Being in Shakspeare's works . - The emblematic Sun of the Parsee , the Jehovah Adonai of the ...
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... language com- pared . - Sources of the language . - Curiosities of nouns of multitude.— Disraeli's inexcusably rude handling of the mother tongue . - The words ye for the ; its ; that , etc. - The multiform pronunciation of ough . - The ...
... language com- pared . - Sources of the language . - Curiosities of nouns of multitude.— Disraeli's inexcusably rude handling of the mother tongue . - The words ye for the ; its ; that , etc. - The multiform pronunciation of ough . - The ...
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