Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... thought of disarming a certain kind of criticism by calling this “ A Dictionary of Things Not Worth Knowing , " the bulk of the matter herein contained being either in substance or in detail that which is deemed below the dignity of ...
... thought of disarming a certain kind of criticism by calling this “ A Dictionary of Things Not Worth Knowing , " the bulk of the matter herein contained being either in substance or in detail that which is deemed below the dignity of ...
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... thought . Kingsley's fine line , Do noble things , not dream them all day long , finds an echo in Emerson , " An action is the perfection and publication of thought " ( Nature ) ; in Lowell , " Every man feels instinctively that all the ...
... thought . Kingsley's fine line , Do noble things , not dream them all day long , finds an echo in Emerson , " An action is the perfection and publication of thought " ( Nature ) ; in Lowell , " Every man feels instinctively that all the ...
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... thought that no human being could say it under any circumstances . " At last I happened to be reading a religious writer , as he thought himself , who threw aspersions on his opponents thick and threefold . Heyday ! came into my head ...
... thought that no human being could say it under any circumstances . " At last I happened to be reading a religious writer , as he thought himself , who threw aspersions on his opponents thick and threefold . Heyday ! came into my head ...
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... thought thrown into metrical form , her lines beginning , " Oh , may I join the choir invisible " —gives magnifi- cent voice to this feeling . Here are the concluding lines : May I reach That purest heaven , be to other souls The cup of ...
... thought thrown into metrical form , her lines beginning , " Oh , may I join the choir invisible " —gives magnifi- cent voice to this feeling . Here are the concluding lines : May I reach That purest heaven , be to other souls The cup of ...
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... thought that I should preface an edition for the press amidst the bus- tling life of a Liverpool consulate . Upon my honor , I am not quite sure that I entirely comprehend my own meaning in some of these blasted allegories ; but I ...
... thought that I should preface an edition for the press amidst the bus- tling life of a Liverpool consulate . Upon my honor , I am not quite sure that I entirely comprehend my own meaning in some of these blasted allegories ; but I ...
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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