Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... hand reply to a lady's inelegancy of expres sion . - Barty Willard's remarkable facility in rhyming on the spur of the moment . - A tilt between Oxford and Cambridge . - Give the devil his due . Scribblings on window - glass - The ...
... hand reply to a lady's inelegancy of expres sion . - Barty Willard's remarkable facility in rhyming on the spur of the moment . - A tilt between Oxford and Cambridge . - Give the devil his due . Scribblings on window - glass - The ...
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... hand ! Ignoble ignorance , inapt indeed— Jeers jestingly just Jupiter's jereed : Knavish Kamschatkans , knightly Kurdsmen know , Long Labrador's light lustre looming low ; Midst myriad multitudes majestic might No nature nobler numbers ...
... hand ! Ignoble ignorance , inapt indeed— Jeers jestingly just Jupiter's jereed : Knavish Kamschatkans , knightly Kurdsmen know , Long Labrador's light lustre looming low ; Midst myriad multitudes majestic might No nature nobler numbers ...
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... hand you neede not weare , A dying head you on your shoulders beare . You need not one to mind you , you must dye , You in your name may spell mortalitye . Younge men may dye , but old men , these dye must ; " Twill not be long before ...
... hand you neede not weare , A dying head you on your shoulders beare . You need not one to mind you , you must dye , You in your name may spell mortalitye . Younge men may dye , but old men , these dye must ; " Twill not be long before ...
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... hand at Palindromes ! " Agreed ! But first , " we ask , " Pray , Peter , what are Palindromes ? " The forward imp replied , " A Palindrome ' s a string of words of sense or meaning void , Which reads both ways the same : and here , with ...
... hand at Palindromes ! " Agreed ! But first , " we ask , " Pray , Peter , what are Palindromes ? " The forward imp replied , " A Palindrome ' s a string of words of sense or meaning void , Which reads both ways the same : and here , with ...
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... hand . Our last conversation has left a tedious insipidity , which has by no means -given me the most exalted idea of your character . Your temper would make me extremely unhappy -and were we united , I should experience nothing but the ...
... hand . Our last conversation has left a tedious insipidity , which has by no means -given me the most exalted idea of your character . Your temper would make me extremely unhappy -and were we united , I should experience nothing but the ...
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