Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1890 - 864 pages |
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... Head was cut off —A Man who Lived after Sensation was Destroyed - Comical Antipathies - Afraid of Boiled Lobsters - A Fish and a Fever - Why Joseph Scaliger couldn't Drink Milk - The Man who Ran away from a Cat- About the Cock that ...
... Head was cut off —A Man who Lived after Sensation was Destroyed - Comical Antipathies - Afraid of Boiled Lobsters - A Fish and a Fever - Why Joseph Scaliger couldn't Drink Milk - The Man who Ran away from a Cat- About the Cock that ...
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... Head - Marriage à la mode - Quid Pro Quo - Woman , pro and con - Abundance of Fools - The World- " Terminer Sans Oyer " -Seeing Double .... Impromptus . 15 Dr. Young and his Ere - How Ben Jonson Paid his Bill - What Melville said to ...
... Head - Marriage à la mode - Quid Pro Quo - Woman , pro and con - Abundance of Fools - The World- " Terminer Sans Oyer " -Seeing Double .... Impromptus . 15 Dr. Young and his Ere - How Ben Jonson Paid his Bill - What Melville said to ...
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... zealot zest - Zinzendorf zion - zealed . CACOPHONOUS COUPLET ON CARDINAL WOLSEY . Begot by butchers , but by bishops bred , How high his honor holds his haughty head ! ADVERAR 75 TER AURORA , WRITTEN IS ED - OCRAS ALPHABETICAL WHIMS . 35.
... zealot zest - Zinzendorf zion - zealed . CACOPHONOUS COUPLET ON CARDINAL WOLSEY . Begot by butchers , but by bishops bred , How high his honor holds his haughty head ! ADVERAR 75 TER AURORA , WRITTEN IS ED - OCRAS ALPHABETICAL WHIMS . 35.
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... Head and Heart . Illustrious Intellects Intelligently Interpreted . Jewels of Judgment and Jets of Jocularity . Kindlings to Keep from the King to the Kitchen . Loosened Leaves from Literary Laurels . Magnificent Morsels from Mighty ...
... Head and Heart . Illustrious Intellects Intelligently Interpreted . Jewels of Judgment and Jets of Jocularity . Kindlings to Keep from the King to the Kitchen . Loosened Leaves from Literary Laurels . Magnificent Morsels from Mighty ...
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... head on your 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 ...
... head on your 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 ...
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