A Clerk of Oxenford: Essays on Literature and LifeOxford University Press, 1954 - 272 pages Essays on literature and life. |
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Page 73
... rhymes with it . Then , to be even cleverer , you use the first , the non - rhyming part of the phrase alone . In regular rhyming slang , instead of your wife , you speak of the old trouble - and - strife ; and the kids are the Gawd ...
... rhymes with it . Then , to be even cleverer , you use the first , the non - rhyming part of the phrase alone . In regular rhyming slang , instead of your wife , you speak of the old trouble - and - strife ; and the kids are the Gawd ...
Page 99
... rhyme scheme , written three hundred years earlier . ( It might be easier to change the calendar , but mankind is by nature conservative . ) On a simpler level there are many nursery rhymes in every language which are designed to teach ...
... rhyme scheme , written three hundred years earlier . ( It might be easier to change the calendar , but mankind is by nature conservative . ) On a simpler level there are many nursery rhymes in every language which are designed to teach ...
Page 126
... rhymes , sometimes it is blank . But the basis of it is always the same . It is built on one simple fact . English is a stressed language , in which nearly every word and every group of words have one or more stresses , and in which we ...
... rhymes , sometimes it is blank . But the basis of it is always the same . It is built on one simple fact . English is a stressed language , in which nearly every word and every group of words have one or more stresses , and in which we ...
Contents
Perchance To Dream | 3 |
One Smith in a Billion | 11 |
Ice and Fire | 20 |
Copyright | |
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A Clerk of Oxenford: Essays on Literature and Life (Classic Reprint) Gilbert Highet No preview available - 2017 |
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