Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... lady . - No pedlar's road to Heaven . - The Quaker and the thinly clad lady . — Curran at the Greenwich inn . - Theodore Hook's ready wit.- Rochester and Barrow . - Sheridan and the windy M. P. - Walk and conversation . - Onslow's ...
... lady . - No pedlar's road to Heaven . - The Quaker and the thinly clad lady . — Curran at the Greenwich inn . - Theodore Hook's ready wit.- Rochester and Barrow . - Sheridan and the windy M. P. - Walk and conversation . - Onslow's ...
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... Lady Lovejoy . - Hot corn . - Wheat- sheaves for bonnet plumes . - Original sin . — Writing verses . - Prudent ... lady's inelegancy of expres- sion . - Barty Willard's remarkable facility in rhyming on the spur of the moment . — A tilt ...
... Lady Lovejoy . - Hot corn . - Wheat- sheaves for bonnet plumes . - Original sin . — Writing verses . - Prudent ... lady's inelegancy of expres- sion . - Barty Willard's remarkable facility in rhyming on the spur of the moment . — A tilt ...
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... Lady Mahon . - Burns's endearments . - Teutonic alliteration . - A lover to his sweetheart in short metre . - Loving lines written with blood . - A macaronic valentine . - Digby's graceful wooing . -Practical joke on a colored man who ...
... Lady Mahon . - Burns's endearments . - Teutonic alliteration . - A lover to his sweetheart in short metre . - Loving lines written with blood . - A macaronic valentine . - Digby's graceful wooing . -Practical joke on a colored man who ...
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... lady's blunder anticipated by Shakspeare's Aguecheek . - Cinderella in the person of Rhodopis , a Thracian slave . - Mrs . Caudle's curtain lectures . - The metre of Ten- nyson's Charge of the Light Brigade . - The starting - point of ...
... lady's blunder anticipated by Shakspeare's Aguecheek . - Cinderella in the person of Rhodopis , a Thracian slave . - Mrs . Caudle's curtain lectures . - The metre of Ten- nyson's Charge of the Light Brigade . - The starting - point of ...
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... lady , a SITUATION to superintend the household and preside at table . She is Agreeable , Becoming , Careful , Desirable , English , Facetious , Generous , Honest , In- dustrious , Judicious , Keen , Lively , Merry ,. 3 29.
... lady , a SITUATION to superintend the household and preside at table . She is Agreeable , Becoming , Careful , Desirable , English , Facetious , Generous , Honest , In- dustrious , Judicious , Keen , Lively , Merry ,. 3 29.
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