Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... Miss Angelina Bur- dett Coutts , the rich heiress : - The Duke must in his second childhood be , Since in his doting age he turns to A. B. C. ENIGMAS . THE letter E is thus enigmatically described : — The beginning of eternity , The end ...
... Miss Angelina Bur- dett Coutts , the rich heiress : - The Duke must in his second childhood be , Since in his doting age he turns to A. B. C. ENIGMAS . THE letter E is thus enigmatically described : — The beginning of eternity , The end ...
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... Miss Catherine Fanshawe . † The Sandwich Island alphabet has twelve letters ; the Burmese , nineteen ; the Italian , twenty ; the Bengalese , twenty - one ; the Hebrew , Syriac , Chaldee , and Samaritan , twenty - two each ; the French ...
... Miss Catherine Fanshawe . † The Sandwich Island alphabet has twelve letters ; the Burmese , nineteen ; the Italian , twenty ; the Bengalese , twenty - one ; the Hebrew , Syriac , Chaldee , and Samaritan , twenty - two each ; the French ...
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... Miss Kitty Stephens was the celebrated London vocalist , and is now the Dowager Countess of Essex : — S he sings so soft , so sweet , so soothing still That to the tone ten thousand thoughts there thrill ; Elysian ecstasies enchant each ...
... Miss Kitty Stephens was the celebrated London vocalist , and is now the Dowager Countess of Essex : — S he sings so soft , so sweet , so soothing still That to the tone ten thousand thoughts there thrill ; Elysian ecstasies enchant each ...
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... MISS M- - -The great love I have hitherto expressed for you is false and I find my indifference towards you -increases daily . The more I see of you , the more you appear in my eyes an object of contempt . -I feel myself every way ...
... MISS M- - -The great love I have hitherto expressed for you is false and I find my indifference towards you -increases daily . The more I see of you , the more you appear in my eyes an object of contempt . -I feel myself every way ...
Page 89
... Miss Lydia's Acrostic shall be used the words ending those of the verse on which my finger may rest . " The stanza thus selected was this : - And must they fall , the young , the proud , the brave , To swell one bloated chief's ...
... Miss Lydia's Acrostic shall be used the words ending those of the verse on which my finger may rest . " The stanza thus selected was this : - And must they fall , the young , the proud , the brave , To swell one bloated chief's ...
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