Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 páginas Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... Political Americanisms , " also in such collections of bibelots and curios as Brewer's " Dictionary of Phrase and Fable , " Bombaugh's " Gleanings for the Curious , ” and Wm . T. Dobson's and Davenport Adams's various compilations ...
... Political Americanisms , " also in such collections of bibelots and curios as Brewer's " Dictionary of Phrase and Fable , " Bombaugh's " Gleanings for the Curious , ” and Wm . T. Dobson's and Davenport Adams's various compilations ...
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... political cave of Adullam . " tented and distressed who gathered around David in the cave of Adullam ( I. Samuei , xxii . 1 , 2 ) . The retort was obvious , and was instantly made by Lord Elcho , who replied that the band in the cave ...
... political cave of Adullam . " tented and distressed who gathered around David in the cave of Adullam ( I. Samuei , xxii . 1 , 2 ) . The retort was obvious , and was instantly made by Lord Elcho , who replied that the band in the cave ...
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... political pur- poses , for love - making , for fortune - hunting , for swindling , and for all the other needs and desires of a large community . By the commencement of the present century matters were very nearly as we find them now ...
... political pur- poses , for love - making , for fortune - hunting , for swindling , and for all the other needs and desires of a large community . By the commencement of the present century matters were very nearly as we find them now ...
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... politics or political economy . Confining ourselves to our own country , and to the period that has elapsed since they had an inde- pendent existence , we would ask , Where are their Foxes , their Burkes , their Sheridans , their ...
... politics or political economy . Confining ourselves to our own country , and to the period that has elapsed since they had an inde- pendent existence , we would ask , Where are their Foxes , their Burkes , their Sheridans , their ...
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... famous mot of Richard Brinsley Sheridan , when his son Thomas jest- ingly declared that he had no decided political principles , but would serve whatever party paid him best , and that he had LITERARY CURIOSITIES . 63.
... famous mot of Richard Brinsley Sheridan , when his son Thomas jest- ingly declared that he had no decided political principles , but would serve whatever party paid him best , and that he had LITERARY CURIOSITIES . 63.
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