Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... Common , one evening in 1869 , in my hearing . He took it from St. Paul's mention of the altar to the Unknown God . " " Since this letter appeared in print , Prof. Huxley has himself given us the history of the word , in the Nineteenth ...
... Common , one evening in 1869 , in my hearing . He took it from St. Paul's mention of the altar to the Unknown God . " " Since this letter appeared in print , Prof. Huxley has himself given us the history of the word , in the Nineteenth ...
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... common locution on both sides of the Atlantic , meaning to use harrowing details for the purpose of intensifying a narrative or a statement . So far back as 1857 , Charlotte Brontë writes in a letter , " What climax there is does not ...
... common locution on both sides of the Atlantic , meaning to use harrowing details for the purpose of intensifying a narrative or a statement . So far back as 1857 , Charlotte Brontë writes in a letter , " What climax there is does not ...
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... common . 66 " " So I have talked with Betsey , and Betsey has talked with me , And we have agreed together that we can't never agree . WILL CARLETON : Farm Ballads : Betsey and I are Out . Albé , a nickname which Shelley and his ...
... common . 66 " " So I have talked with Betsey , and Betsey has talked with me , And we have agreed together that we can't never agree . WILL CARLETON : Farm Ballads : Betsey and I are Out . Albé , a nickname which Shelley and his ...
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... common form of comparison with law- yers to imply that two things exactly agree . Alliteration . The repetition of some letter or sound at the beginning of two or more words in close or immediate succession , as , - Apt alliteration's ...
... common form of comparison with law- yers to imply that two things exactly agree . Alliteration . The repetition of some letter or sound at the beginning of two or more words in close or immediate succession , as , - Apt alliteration's ...
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... common English phrase , applied to the self - gratulation of a pompous and inflated person . The reference is to the fable of the horse - dung floating down the river with a lot of apples . And even this , little as it is , gives him so ...
... common English phrase , applied to the self - gratulation of a pompous and inflated person . The reference is to the fable of the horse - dung floating down the river with a lot of apples . And even this , little as it is , gives him so ...
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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