Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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Page 30
... 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 Londou vocalist , and is now the Dowager Countess of Essex : - She sings so soft , so sweet , so soothing still That to the tone ten thousand thoughts there thrill ; Elysian cestasies enchant each ...
... Miss Kitty Stephens was the celebrated Londou vocalist , and is now the Dowager Countess of Essex : - She sings so soft , so sweet , so soothing still That to the tone ten thousand thoughts there thrill ; Elysian cestasies 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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acrostic anagram appear asked beautiful Ben Jonson Bible Bishop blank verse body Cæsar called century child church curious dead Dean Swift dear death died divine Doneraile doth earth England English English language epitaph eyes fair father fell flower French gentleman give grace grave Greek hand hath head hear heart heaven Hebrew hexameters holy honor hundred inscription Jesus John Julius Cæsar King lady language Latin learned letter light lines live look Lord Lord's Prayer marabout marriage Miss never night o'er original person poem poet porringer pray prayer Psalm Queen remarkable replied rhyme says seven Shakspeare Sir Walter Scott sleep soul sweet tell thee Theodore Hook thine thing thou thought tion translation unto verse wife woman word write written wrote young