Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesGibbings, 1894 - 1104 páginas |
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... Greek origin ; but the weight of authority makes them date from the thirteenth century , and it is not unlikely that they may have been taken from the Latin AffIrmo , I affirm , and nEgO , Í deny . In the Greek form , a , alpha , this ...
... Greek origin ; but the weight of authority makes them date from the thirteenth century , and it is not unlikely that they may have been taken from the Latin AffIrmo , I affirm , and nEgO , Í deny . In the Greek form , a , alpha , this ...
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... Greek , " Friends living far away are no friends ; " the Latin , " He that is absent will not be the heir ; " the Spanish , " Absence is love's foe : far from the eyes , far from the heart , " and " The dead and the absent have no ...
... Greek , " Friends living far away are no friends ; " the Latin , " He that is absent will not be the heir ; " the Spanish , " Absence is love's foe : far from the eyes , far from the heart , " and " The dead and the absent have no ...
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... Greeks also cultivated the acrostic , as may be seen in the specimens that survive in the Greek Anthology , and so did their intellectual successors , the Latins . Cicero , in his " De Divinatione , " tells us that " the verses of the ...
... Greeks also cultivated the acrostic , as may be seen in the specimens that survive in the Greek Anthology , and so did their intellectual successors , the Latins . Cicero , in his " De Divinatione , " tells us that " the verses of the ...
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... Greek , the square Hebrew of the Jews , the elaborate Sanscrit , the Neskhi alphabet , —vehicle of the thoughts of Turk and Persian , as well as of all the vast Arabic - speaking world , all these have slowly diverged , in accordance ...
... Greek , the square Hebrew of the Jews , the elaborate Sanscrit , the Neskhi alphabet , —vehicle of the thoughts of Turk and Persian , as well as of all the vast Arabic - speaking world , all these have slowly diverged , in accordance ...
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... Greek , emigrated first to Italy , and afterwards , during the reign of Francis I. , to France . His beautiful penmanship attracted universal admiration . Francis I. had a Greek font of type cast , modelled from his handwriting ...
... Greek , emigrated first to Italy , and afterwards , during the reign of Francis I. , to France . His beautiful penmanship attracted universal admiration . Francis I. had a Greek font of type cast , modelled from his handwriting ...
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acrostic admiration advertisements Æsop American anagram ancient answer 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 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