Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1890 - 864 pages |
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... Hand - A Comical Petition in Church - The Soldier who Died for want of a Stop - Indian Heraldry- Anachronisms of Shakespeare - King Lear's Spectacles - The Heroines of Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Life and Sonnets Compared - Was He Lame ...
... Hand - A Comical Petition in Church - The Soldier who Died for want of a Stop - Indian Heraldry- Anachronisms of Shakespeare - King Lear's Spectacles - The Heroines of Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Life and Sonnets Compared - Was He Lame ...
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... hand ! Ignobie ignorance , inapt în ieed— Jeera jestingly just Jupiter's jereed : Kavish Kamchatkans , knightly Kurdsmen know , Long Labrador's light lustre looming low ; Midet myriad multitudes majestic might No nature nobier numbers ...
... hand ! Ignobie ignorance , inapt în ieed— Jeera jestingly just Jupiter's jereed : Kavish Kamchatkans , knightly Kurdsmen know , Long Labrador's light lustre looming low ; Midet myriad multitudes majestic might No nature nobier 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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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