Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaLippincott, 1874 - 864 sidor |
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... hundred Sonnets - The " Nettle " Rhymes - How a Young Lady teased her Beau - Assisting a Poet - Miss Lydia's Acrostic - Alfred De Musset's Lines - What the Duc de Malakoff wrote - Reversed Rhymes - How to make " Rhopalic " verses ...
... hundred Sonnets - The " Nettle " Rhymes - How a Young Lady teased her Beau - Assisting a Poet - Miss Lydia's Acrostic - Alfred De Musset's Lines - What the Duc de Malakoff wrote - Reversed Rhymes - How to make " Rhopalic " verses ...
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... Hundred People Dined - Difference between the English Poets- Perils of Precocity - Children who were too Knowing - What became of 146 Englishmen who were confined in the Black Hole - How the Finns make Barometers of Stone - Singular ...
... Hundred People Dined - Difference between the English Poets- Perils of Precocity - Children who were too Knowing - What became of 146 Englishmen who were confined in the Black Hole - How the Finns make Barometers of Stone - Singular ...
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... Hundred and Eleven Languages - A Cardinal of Many Tongues - Elihu Burrit , the Learned Blacksmith - Literary Oddities - Curious Habits of Celebrated Authors - How they have Written their Books - Racine's Adventure with the Workmen ...
... Hundred and Eleven Languages - A Cardinal of Many Tongues - Elihu Burrit , the Learned Blacksmith - Literary Oddities - Curious Habits of Celebrated Authors - How they have Written their Books - Racine's Adventure with the Workmen ...
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... Hundred Years - Bodies Converted into Fat - About Mummies- Wonderful Discovery in an Etruscan Tomb - The Reign of Terror - What Became of the Bodies of the French Kings - Jewish Tombs in the Valley of Hinnom - A Whimsical Will - The ...
... Hundred Years - Bodies Converted into Fat - About Mummies- Wonderful Discovery in an Etruscan Tomb - The Reign of Terror - What Became of the Bodies of the French Kings - Jewish Tombs in the Valley of Hinnom - A Whimsical Will - The ...
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... hundred lines , almost all the words of which he contrived to conclude with the letter E. The Pangrammatists contrive to crowd all the letters of the alphabet ipto every single verse . The prophet Ezra may be regarded as the father of ...
... hundred lines , almost all the words of which he contrived to conclude with the letter E. The Pangrammatists contrive to crowd all the letters of the alphabet ipto every single verse . The prophet Ezra may be regarded as the father of ...
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature Charles Carroll Bombaugh Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1875 |
Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange ... Charles Carroll Bombaugh Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1890 |
Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature Charles Carroll Bombaugh Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1875 |
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Sida 803 - ... 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.
Sida 507 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Sida 760 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Sida 521 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Sida 125 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Sida 783 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
Sida 412 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Sida 391 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Sida 269 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Sida 231 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.