Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... quoted above . So through Bailey , Ash , and Todd it has been handed down to our time , a standing exemplar of the solidarity of dictionaries , and of the ponderous indolence with which philologers repeat without examining the errors of ...
... quoted above . So through Bailey , Ash , and Todd it has been handed down to our time , a standing exemplar of the solidarity of dictionaries , and of the ponderous indolence with which philologers repeat without examining the errors of ...
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... quoted is directly traversed by the French , " The absent are always in the wrong , " and " Absent , none without fault ; present , none without excuse . ' And every language furnishes examples to support this : e.g. , the Greek ...
... quoted is directly traversed by the French , " The absent are always in the wrong , " and " Absent , none without fault ; present , none without excuse . ' And every language furnishes examples to support this : e.g. , the Greek ...
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... quoted a flattering German version , Aller Ehren Ist Oesterreich Voll , ( " Austria is crowned with all honor , " ) but it is recorded that he had to remove an equally unflattering inscription in the Burg , Aller Erst Ist Oesterreich ...
... quoted a flattering German version , Aller Ehren Ist Oesterreich Voll , ( " Austria is crowned with all honor , " ) but it is recorded that he had to remove an equally unflattering inscription in the Burg , Aller Erst Ist Oesterreich ...
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... quoted in the New English Dictionary , sub voce , the word was " suggested by Prof. Huxley at a party held previous to the formation of the now defunct Metaphysical Society , at Mr. James Knowles's house on Clapham Common , one evening ...
... quoted in the New English Dictionary , sub voce , the word was " suggested by Prof. Huxley at a party held previous to the formation of the now defunct Metaphysical Society , at Mr. James Knowles's house on Clapham Common , one evening ...
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... quoted remains the best because unconscious exponent . Another scholar has discovered that there are only two words in the English language which contain all the vowels in their order . They are " abstemious " and " facetious . " The ...
... quoted remains the best because unconscious exponent . Another scholar has discovered that there are only two words in the English language which contain all the vowels in their order . They are " abstemious " and " facetious . " The ...
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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