Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... looks for food . On soft cloth footstools no old fox doth brood . Long storm - tost sloops forlorn , work on to port . Rooks do not roost on spoons , nor woodcocks snort , Nor dog on snow - drop or on coltsfoot rolls , Nor common frogs ...
... looks for food . On soft cloth footstools no old fox doth brood . Long storm - tost sloops forlorn , work on to port . Rooks do not roost on spoons , nor woodcocks snort , Nor dog on snow - drop or on coltsfoot rolls , Nor common frogs ...
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... looks shuddering back with conscious dread On such a tarnished blot as she has made . Let hell receive you , riveted in chains , Doomed to the hottest focus of its flames . * Tristram Shandy . T ALLITERATIVE ACROSTIC . THE following ...
... looks shuddering back with conscious dread On such a tarnished blot as she has made . Let hell receive you , riveted in chains , Doomed to the hottest focus of its flames . * Tristram Shandy . T ALLITERATIVE ACROSTIC . THE following ...
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... look up when their eyes the gas - glare met ; So when I had learned from commercial adviser That mere galt for sand was the great fertilizer , I bade Mr. Eaglet , although ' twas ideal , Get some from the clay - pit , and so get'm real ...
... look up when their eyes the gas - glare met ; So when I had learned from commercial adviser That mere galt for sand was the great fertilizer , I bade Mr. Eaglet , although ' twas ideal , Get some from the clay - pit , and so get'm real ...
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... apt classical term ; but in- stead of that they are looking out a word that has an L , an M , or a D , in it . When therefore we meet with any of these in- scriptions , we are not so much to look in ALPHABETICAL WHIMS . 57.
... apt classical term ; but in- stead of that they are looking out a word that has an L , an M , or a D , in it . When therefore we meet with any of these in- scriptions , we are not so much to look in ALPHABETICAL WHIMS . 57.
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Charles Carroll Bombaugh. scriptions , we are not so much to look in them for the thought as for the year of the Lord . " Apropos of this humorous allusion to the Germanesque character of the chronogram , it is worthy of notice that Euro ...
Charles Carroll Bombaugh. scriptions , we are not so much to look in them for the thought as for the year of the Lord . " Apropos of this humorous allusion to the Germanesque character of the chronogram , it is worthy of notice that Euro ...
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