Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... phrase , generally with allusion to the custom of beginning a meal with eggs , in this case forming the first part of the phrase ab ovo usque ad mala , from the egg to the apples , i.e. , from beginning to end ; but sometimes the ...
... phrase , generally with allusion to the custom of beginning a meal with eggs , in this case forming the first part of the phrase ab ovo usque ad mala , from the egg to the apples , i.e. , from beginning to end ; but sometimes the ...
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... phrase , generally with allusion to the custom of beginning a meal with eggs , in this case forming the first part of the phrase ab ovo usque ad mala , from the egg to the apples , i.e. , from beginning to end ; but sometimes the ...
... phrase , generally with allusion to the custom of beginning a meal with eggs , in this case forming the first part of the phrase ab ovo usque ad mala , from the egg to the apples , i.e. , from beginning to end ; but sometimes the ...
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... phrase dates back to Sidney's " Arcadia , " Book I .: " Between these two persons [ Dametas and Miso ] , who never agreed in any humor but in disagreeing , is issued forth Mistress Mopsa , a fit woman to partake of both their ...
... phrase dates back to Sidney's " Arcadia , " Book I .: " Between these two persons [ Dametas and Miso ] , who never agreed in any humor but in disagreeing , is issued forth Mistress Mopsa , a fit woman to partake of both their ...
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... phrase occurs as a quotation in Bacon's " Ad- vancement of Learning , " book i . ( 1605 ) . Bacon explains it thus : " These times are the ancient times , when the world is ancient , and not those which we account ancient ordine ...
... phrase occurs as a quotation in Bacon's " Ad- vancement of Learning , " book i . ( 1605 ) . Bacon explains it thus : " These times are the ancient times , when the world is ancient , and not those which we account ancient ordine ...
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... phrase " L'appétit vient en mangeant " ( " Appetite comes in eating " ) . The context is worth quoting : " The stone called asbestos is not more inextinguishable than is the thirst of which I am the parent . Appetite comes with eating ...
... phrase " L'appétit vient en mangeant " ( " Appetite comes in eating " ) . The context is worth quoting : " The stone called asbestos is not more inextinguishable than is the thirst of which I am the parent . Appetite comes with eating ...
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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