Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... turn . ” — The sandwiching or intermingling of one language with an- other said to bear the same relation to literature that opera bouffe does to music . Dr. Maginn's pleasant expedient of translating alternate lines of a favorite poem ...
... turn . ” — The sandwiching or intermingling of one language with an- other said to bear the same relation to literature that opera bouffe does to music . Dr. Maginn's pleasant expedient of translating alternate lines of a favorite poem ...
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... turns that may be given to the defects of stammering , as illustrated by Saxe . - A song dove - tailed by recitative . - Thoughts suggested by cradle rocking . - Whately's elegy on the geologist Buckland . - A reminis cence of Troy ...
... turns that may be given to the defects of stammering , as illustrated by Saxe . - A song dove - tailed by recitative . - Thoughts suggested by cradle rocking . - Whately's elegy on the geologist Buckland . - A reminis cence of Troy ...
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... turns , and showed them that he could do his business without them . It must have been very pleasant to have seen this Poet avoiding the reprobate letter as much as another would a false quantity , and making his escape from it ...
... turns , and showed them that he could do his business without them . It must have been very pleasant to have seen this Poet avoiding the reprobate letter as much as another would a false quantity , and making his escape from it ...
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... turns to A. B. C. ENIGMAS . THE letter E is thus enigmatically described : - The beginning of eternity , The end of time and space , The beginning of every end , The end of every place . The letter M is concealed in the following Latin ...
... turns to A. B. C. ENIGMAS . THE letter E is thus enigmatically described : - The beginning of eternity , The end of time and space , The beginning of every end , The end of every place . The letter M is concealed in the following Latin ...
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... turns up trumps ; But full cups , hurtful , spur up unjust thumps . A young English lady , on observing a gentleman's lane newly planted with lilacs , made this neat impromptu : - Let lovely lilacs line Lee's lonely lane . с ...
... turns up trumps ; But full cups , hurtful , spur up unjust thumps . A young English lady , on observing a gentleman's lane newly planted with lilacs , made this neat impromptu : - Let lovely lilacs line Lee's lonely lane . с ...
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