Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... early 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 ...
... early 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 ...
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... earliest recorded appearance is in a poem by Richard Rolle de Ham- pole ( Early English Text Society Reprints , No. 26 , p . 79 ) : When Adam dalfe and Eue spane , So spire if thou may spede , Whare was then the pride of man That now ...
... earliest recorded appearance is in a poem by Richard Rolle de Ham- pole ( Early English Text Society Reprints , No. 26 , p . 79 ) : When Adam dalfe and Eue spane , So spire if thou may spede , Whare was then the pride of man That now ...
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... early example of this occurred in London some thirty years ago . One morning the good people woke up to find the interrogation " Who's Blank ? " staring them everywhere in the face , -in the newspapers , on the walls and hoardings of ...
... early example of this occurred in London some thirty years ago . One morning the good people woke up to find the interrogation " Who's Blank ? " staring them everywhere in the face , -in the newspapers , on the walls and hoardings of ...
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... early English poetry . Plowman : By Saint Paul , quoth Perkin , Ye profer me fayre , That I shall swynke and swete And sowe for us bothe And other labors do for thy love Al my lyfe tyme , In covenant that thou keep Holy Kyrke and ...
... early English poetry . Plowman : By Saint Paul , quoth Perkin , Ye profer me fayre , That I shall swynke and swete And sowe for us bothe And other labors do for thy love Al my lyfe tyme , In covenant that thou keep Holy Kyrke and ...
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... early alphabets , which minimized the necessary symbols to the smallest possible quota , all modern systems of writing , the Northern Runes , the Roman alphabet , which has now finally superseded its parent Greek , the square Hebrew of ...
... early alphabets , which minimized the necessary symbols to the smallest possible quota , all modern systems of writing , the Northern Runes , the Roman alphabet , which has now finally superseded its parent Greek , the square Hebrew of ...
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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