Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 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 , con- 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 , con- sisting of four - and - twenty - books , having en- tirely banished the ...
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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 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 . It ...
... 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 . It ...
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... once , her spirits rose as buoyant as ever . This puzzled the court - for people in her eminent . position always have a court ; parasites are plenty in Paris- they did not know whether she had determined frankly to confess her age , or ...
... once , her spirits rose as buoyant as ever . This puzzled the court - for people in her eminent . position always have a court ; parasites are plenty in Paris- they did not know whether she had determined frankly to confess her age , or ...
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... once , his linguis vibrantibis ora ; But just as he's licking his lips , and gladly preparing to taste ' em , Straight into his eyeball the skipper stridentem conjicit hastam . Straight as he feels in his eyeball the lance , growing ...
... once , his linguis vibrantibis ora ; But just as he's licking his lips , and gladly preparing to taste ' em , Straight into his eyeball the skipper stridentem conjicit hastam . Straight as he feels in his eyeball the lance , growing ...
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