Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... nature at all times ; that the liter- ary trifling which pleased the keenest wits at particular periods of mental development has a distinct historical value in the retrospect ; that the blunders of great minds are worth preserving as ...
... nature at all times ; that the liter- ary trifling which pleased the keenest wits at particular periods of mental development has a distinct historical value in the retrospect ; that the blunders of great minds are worth preserving as ...
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... nature , a piece of impertinent correspondency , a death's - head at your banquet , Agathocles ' pot , a Mordecai in your gate , a Lazarus at your door , a lion in your path , the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet . - Lamb's Elia : Poor ...
... nature , a piece of impertinent correspondency , a death's - head at your banquet , Agathocles ' pot , a Mordecai in your gate , a Lazarus at your door , a lion in your path , the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet . - Lamb's Elia : Poor ...
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... nature , Heart of Stone replies , - After so many years of lacerating agony , what are riches to me ? and now that our idol is no more , I do not press further your acceptance of clause 5. Let our meeting take place on the approaching ...
... nature , Heart of Stone replies , - After so many years of lacerating agony , what are riches to me ? and now that our idol is no more , I do not press further your acceptance of clause 5. Let our meeting take place on the approaching ...
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... Nature's own creating . JAMES THOMSON : Coriolanus , iii . 3 . What can they see in the longest kingly line in ... natural extension of meaning , was applied to authors as well as mere pen- men : Here lies Nolly Goldsmith , for shortness ...
... Nature's own creating . JAMES THOMSON : Coriolanus , iii . 3 . What can they see in the longest kingly line in ... natural extension of meaning , was applied to authors as well as mere pen- men : Here lies Nolly Goldsmith , for shortness ...
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... nature when you dare to insinuate that our divine minds are actuated by motives so base . A love of justice influences us . We are above mean revenge . We are too magnanimous to be angry at the award of such a judge in favor of such a ...
... nature when you dare to insinuate that our divine minds are actuated by motives so base . A love of justice influences us . We are above mean revenge . We are too magnanimous to be angry at the award of such a judge in favor of such a ...
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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