Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... once so popular , which , after holding you breathless with the account of an accident , a love - story , a tale of adventure , finally landed you into a box of pills or a bottle of castor oil ? Then there was the enigmatical notice ...
... once so popular , which , after holding you breathless with the account of an accident , a love - story , a tale of adventure , finally landed you into a box of pills or a bottle of castor oil ? Then there was the enigmatical notice ...
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... once . " ( The Tin Trumpet : Advice . ) The ingenuous few that occasionally seem to seek advice really want something else : " We ask advice , but we mean approbation . " ( COLTON : Lacon . ) Yet Benjamin Franklin has so little worldly ...
... once . " ( The Tin Trumpet : Advice . ) The ingenuous few that occasionally seem to seek advice really want something else : " We ask advice , but we mean approbation . " ( COLTON : Lacon . ) Yet Benjamin Franklin has so little worldly ...
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... once more to be heard from : " G- Arthur and E. J. W. are inex- cusable in absenting themselves from the two indescribables . Do not leave under a wilful delusion . . . . All communication is intercepted in England and abroad , and our ...
... once more to be heard from : " G- Arthur and E. J. W. are inex- cusable in absenting themselves from the two indescribables . Do not leave under a wilful delusion . . . . All communication is intercepted in England and abroad , and our ...
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... once raising the unmeaning taboo . Others have made inordinate use of some letter and insisted that it should form the initial of every word . The first called their Procrustean method lipogrammatizing ; the latter , alliteration . Each ...
... once raising the unmeaning taboo . Others have made inordinate use of some letter and insisted that it should form the initial of every word . The first called their Procrustean method lipogrammatizing ; the latter , alliteration . Each ...
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... Once make this idea the basis of philosophy , the standard of right and wrong , and the centre of religion , and the conversion of the masses " will prove , perhaps , an easier task than that of teaching Greeks and Romans , Syrians and ...
... Once make this idea the basis of philosophy , the standard of right and wrong , and the centre of religion , and the conversion of the masses " will prove , perhaps , an easier task than that of teaching Greeks and Romans , Syrians and ...
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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