Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... French , and Spanish musicians ; and in the mnemonic words of logic it stands for the universal affirmative proposi ... French have a similar commendatory ex- pression , " He is marked with an A " ( " C'est un homme marqué à l'A ...
... French , and Spanish musicians ; and in the mnemonic words of logic it stands for the universal affirmative proposi ... French have a similar commendatory ex- pression , " He is marked with an A " ( " C'est un homme marqué à l'A ...
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... French poets , from the time of Francis I. to that of Louis XIV . , were fond of this trifling . But it was carried to its most wasteful and ridicu- lous excess by the Elizabethan poets . Sir John Davies has a series of no less than ...
... French poets , from the time of Francis I. to that of Louis XIV . , were fond of this trifling . But it was carried to its most wasteful and ridicu- lous excess by the Elizabethan poets . Sir John Davies has a series of no less than ...
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... French ought to write more correct French than they do , and places " exclusivement " after the verb : Ce côté est réservé exclusivement à l'adresse . Diese Seite ist nur für die Adresse bestimmt . Russia is of the same mind : Côté ...
... French ought to write more correct French than they do , and places " exclusivement " after the verb : Ce côté est réservé exclusivement à l'adresse . Diese Seite ist nur für die Adresse bestimmt . Russia is of the same mind : Côté ...
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... French proverb , " France is an absolute monarchy tempered by songs , " emphasizes the important part which popular poetry may play in political matters . And Beaumarchais's phrase , " Tout finit par des chansons " ( " Everything ends ...
... French proverb , " France is an absolute monarchy tempered by songs , " emphasizes the important part which popular poetry may play in political matters . And Beaumarchais's phrase , " Tout finit par des chansons " ( " Everything ends ...
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... French kitchen began . The noble , the brave , and the fair girded on their aprons and stood over stew - pans with the air of alchemists over alembics . The great Vatel flourished at this time , -Vatel who , like the ancient Roman ...
... French kitchen began . The noble , the brave , and the fair girded on their aprons and stood over stew - pans with the air of alchemists over alembics . The great Vatel flourished at this time , -Vatel who , like the ancient Roman ...
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acrostic admiration advertisements Æsop American anagram ancient appeared asked Ben Jonson bouts-rimés Cæsar called century Charles common cried curious dead death Diogenes Laertius doth Duke Echo England English epigram epitaph essay expression eyes famous father fool France French gentleman give Goethe Greek hand hath head heart heaven Henry honor Horace Walpole horse Hudibras humor John Julius Cæsar king known lady language Latin letter lines literary literature live London Lord Lord Byron meaning mind modern Molière never Notes and Queries once origin person phrase play Plutarch poem poet political Pope popular proverb Publius Syrus quoted replied says sense Shakespeare slang soul speech stanza story tell term thee things thou thought tion told turn verse Voltaire wife word write wrote young