Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott, 1925 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... speak ; Courteous is She , though Thou be weak . Evoke from Heav'n , as thick as Manna , Joy after joy on GRACE JOANNA . On Fornham's glebe and pasture land A blessing pray . Long , long may stand , Not touch'd by time , the Rectory ...
... speak ; Courteous is She , though Thou be weak . Evoke from Heav'n , as thick as Manna , Joy after joy on GRACE JOANNA . On Fornham's glebe and pasture land A blessing pray . Long , long may stand , Not touch'd by time , the Rectory ...
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... speak louder than words . An old saw , found in one form or another in all languages . Thus , the French say , " From saying to doing is a long stretch , " and " Great boasters , small doers ; " the Italians , " Deeds are male , words ...
... speak louder than words . An old saw , found in one form or another in all languages . Thus , the French say , " From saying to doing is a long stretch , " and " Great boasters , small doers ; " the Italians , " Deeds are male , words ...
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... speak Spanish fluently , " the boarding - house - keeper who announced that she had " a cottage contain ing eight rooms and an acre of land , " the maiden or widow lady , matrimoni- ally inclined , who advertised for a husband " with a ...
... speak Spanish fluently , " the boarding - house - keeper who announced that she had " a cottage contain ing eight rooms and an acre of land , " the maiden or widow lady , matrimoni- ally inclined , who advertised for a husband " with a ...
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... speak . In Paris alone as many as a hundred thieves of this kind have been prosecuted in a single year . Yet they are a small percentage of the total detected . Jules Janin mentions a fellow - citizen whose first impulse when he saw a ...
... speak . In Paris alone as many as a hundred thieves of this kind have been prosecuted in a single year . Yet they are a small percentage of the total detected . Jules Janin mentions a fellow - citizen whose first impulse when he saw a ...
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... speak as if you were in earnest , and then cry you , ' Madam , there's a bite ! ' I would not have you undervalue this , for it is the constant amuse- ment in court , and everywhere else among the great people ; and I let you know it ...
... speak as if you were in earnest , and then cry you , ' Madam , there's a bite ! ' I would not have you undervalue this , for it is the constant amuse- ment in court , and everywhere else among the great people ; and I let you know it ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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
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Página 591 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 193 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 492 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Página 42 - This is life to come. Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony. Enkindle generous ardor , feed pure love. Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Página 297 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 204 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Página 246 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 164 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Página 47 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Página 274 - He spake ; and, to confirm his words, out-flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
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