Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... hath risen , . . . whether the happiness of man in this world doth consist more in contemplation or action . " He instances on the one hand the opinion of " many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion , " who prefer contemplation ...
... hath risen , . . . whether the happiness of man in this world doth consist more in contemplation or action . " He instances on the one hand the opinion of " many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion , " who prefer contemplation ...
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... hath given honor to me . ' Ray , in his collection of proverbs , adds a second couplet which contains ar answer to the first , -i.e . Upstart [ upstarted ] a churl and gathered good , And thence did spring our gentle blood . This seems ...
... hath given honor to me . ' Ray , in his collection of proverbs , adds a second couplet which contains ar answer to the first , -i.e . Upstart [ upstarted ] a churl and gathered good , And thence did spring our gentle blood . This seems ...
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... hath overwent , Begins to think on rest , his journey spent , Till , mounting some tall mountain , he doth find More heights before him than he left behind . Whether Pope's or Drummond's , the “ Essay " was hardly published before we ...
... hath overwent , Begins to think on rest , his journey spent , Till , mounting some tall mountain , he doth find More heights before him than he left behind . Whether Pope's or Drummond's , the “ Essay " was hardly published before we ...
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... hath found in the same letters , clearly to sham . CAROLUS REX : Cras ero lux ( To - morrow I shall be light ) . An anagram which Charles II . is said to have left written on one of the windows of King's Newton Hall , in Derbyshire ...
... hath found in the same letters , clearly to sham . CAROLUS REX : Cras ero lux ( To - morrow I shall be light ) . An anagram which Charles II . is said to have left written on one of the windows of King's Newton Hall , in Derbyshire ...
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... Hath Spencer life ? A very good anagram , for in the age after Spenser's death , Phineas Fletcher had more of his manner and spirit than almost any other poet . GLADSTONE : G leads not . So cried the exultant Tory in apt opposition to ...
... Hath Spencer life ? A very good anagram , for in the age after Spenser's death , Phineas Fletcher had more of his manner and spirit than almost any other poet . GLADSTONE : G leads not . So cried the exultant Tory in apt opposition to ...
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