Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1890 - 864 pages |
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... once in a whole poem . One Try- phiodorus was a great master in this kind of writing . He composed an Odyssey , or Epic Poem , on the adventures of Ulysses , cou- sisting of four - and - twenty - books , having en- tirely banished the ...
... once in a whole poem . One Try- phiodorus was a great master in this kind of writing . He composed an Odyssey , or Epic Poem , on the adventures of Ulysses , cou- sisting of four - and - twenty - books , having en- tirely banished the ...
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... once more our minds engage . OLIVER'S IMPROMPTU . OLIVER , a sailor and patriot , with a merited reputation for extempore rhyming , while on a visit to his cousin Benedict Arnold , after the war , was asked by the latter to amuse a ...
... once more our minds engage . OLIVER'S IMPROMPTU . OLIVER , a sailor and patriot , with a merited reputation for extempore rhyming , while on a visit to his cousin Benedict Arnold , after the war , was asked by the latter to amuse a ...
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... once described as distinguished for- " Care to guide his flock and feed his lambs By words , works , prayers , psalms , alms , and anagrams . ” Sylvester , in dedicating to his sovereign his translation of Du Bartas , rings the ...
... once described as distinguished for- " Care to guide his flock and feed his lambs By words , works , prayers , psalms , alms , and anagrams . ” Sylvester , in dedicating to his sovereign his translation of Du Bartas , rings the ...
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... once more , What bad men do you'll then explore - EVIL . PERSIST . A lady , being asked by a gentleman to join in the bonds of matrimony with him , wrote the word " STRIPES , " stating at the time that the letters making up the word ...
... once more , What bad men do you'll then explore - EVIL . PERSIST . A lady , being asked by a gentleman to join in the bonds of matrimony with him , wrote the word " STRIPES , " stating at the time that the letters making up the word ...
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... once patriotic and political . " A chorus of hasty ejaculations and of murmurs at once greeted him . " Yes , gentlemen , " coolly proceeded the orator , " I drink to a thing which an object that - Bah ! I will out with it at once ...
... once patriotic and political . " A chorus of hasty ejaculations and of murmurs at once greeted him . " Yes , gentlemen , " coolly proceeded the orator , " I drink to a thing which an object that - Bah ! I will out with it at once ...
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