Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... letter , providing for retreat in good order , if needful . - A valentine written in sympathetic ink . — An invi- tation cryptographically concealed -Macaulay's beautiful verses to the daughter of Lord and Lady Mahon . - Burns's ...
... letter , providing for retreat in good order , if needful . - A valentine written in sympathetic ink . — An invi- tation cryptographically concealed -Macaulay's beautiful verses to the daughter of Lord and Lady Mahon . - Burns's ...
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... letters of the text being cut out of the vellum pages and interleaved with blue paper . — A silver book — the Codex Argenteus . - Distinctions among book amateurs . Literariana . 720 HE mysterious authorship of the Letters of Junius ...
... letters of the text being cut out of the vellum pages and interleaved with blue paper . — A silver book — the Codex Argenteus . - Distinctions among book amateurs . Literariana . 720 HE mysterious authorship of the Letters of Junius ...
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Charles Carroll Bombaugh. for book lovers . - The endings of letters . - Bacon on studies and Books . TH Literati . 723 HE ... letter to Governor Winthrop ; embalmed head in possession of a lady.— Pope's skull in a private museum ...
Charles Carroll Bombaugh. for book lovers . - The endings of letters . - Bacon on studies and Books . TH Literati . 723 HE ... letter to Governor Winthrop ; embalmed head in possession of a lady.— Pope's skull in a private museum ...
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... letter droppers of antiquity , that would take an exception , without any reason , against some particular letter in the alphabet , so as not to admit it once in a whole poem . One Try- phiodorus was a great master in this kind of ...
... letter droppers of antiquity , that would take an exception , without any reason , against some particular letter in the alphabet , so as not to admit it once in a whole poem . One Try- phiodorus was a great master in this kind of ...
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... letter . " In Nɔ . 63 , Addison has again introduced Tryphiodorus , in his Vision of the Region of False Wit , where he sees the phan- tom of this poet pursued through the intricacies of a dance by four - and - twenty persons ...
... letter . " In Nɔ . 63 , Addison has again introduced Tryphiodorus , in his Vision of the Region of False Wit , where he sees the phan- tom of this poet pursued through the intricacies of a dance by four - and - twenty persons ...
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