Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... taken together , form a word of an opposite meaning , as in this instance : - U nite and untie are the same - so say yo U. Not in wedlock , I ween , has this unity bee N. In the drama of marriage each wandering gou T To a new face would ...
... taken together , form a word of an opposite meaning , as in this instance : - U nite and untie are the same - so say yo U. Not in wedlock , I ween , has this unity bee N. In the drama of marriage each wandering gou T To a new face would ...
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... : - William Thorneton . O little worth in ' man . Mrs. Joane Flover . Love for anie . At Mannington , 1631- Katherine Lougher , Lower taken higher . Maitland has the following curious specimen - How much there 56 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS .
... : - William Thorneton . O little worth in ' man . Mrs. Joane Flover . Love for anie . At Mannington , 1631- Katherine Lougher , Lower taken higher . Maitland has the following curious specimen - How much there 56 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS .
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... taken entire , or divided into two , one half to be connected with another half taken elsewhere ; but two verses are never to be taken together . The Empress Eudoxia wrote the life of Jesus Christ in centos taken from Homer . Proba ...
... taken entire , or divided into two , one half to be connected with another half taken elsewhere ; but two verses are never to be taken together . The Empress Eudoxia wrote the life of Jesus Christ in centos taken from Homer . Proba ...
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... taken from some piece of poetry , but the order in which they occur is reversed . The following ex- ample is from the album of a Parisian lady of literary celebrity , the widow of one of the Crimean heroes . The original poem is by ...
... taken from some piece of poetry , but the order in which they occur is reversed . The following ex- ample is from the album of a Parisian lady of literary celebrity , the widow of one of the Crimean heroes . The original poem is by ...
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... taken exception to the above line in Pope's Essay on Criticism , and have shown , by reference to abundant examples , that many of the finest pass- ages in our language are nearly , if not altogether , monosyllabic . Indeed , it could ...
... taken exception to the above line in Pope's Essay on Criticism , and have shown , by reference to abundant examples , that many of the finest pass- ages in our language are nearly , if not altogether , monosyllabic . Indeed , it could ...
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