Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesGibbings, 1894 - 1104 páginas |
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... dead and the absent have no friends . " Absolute Wisdom . A sobriquet given to Sir Matthew Wood , a stanch supporter of Queen Caroline in 1821 , who , having been reproached for giving foolish advice to that unhappy queen , diffidently ...
... dead and the absent have no friends . " Absolute Wisdom . A sobriquet given to Sir Matthew Wood , a stanch supporter of Queen Caroline in 1821 , who , having been reproached for giving foolish advice to that unhappy queen , diffidently ...
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... Dead Heart " was being played at his theatre . He ordered ten hundred thousand hearts to be printed in red , inscribed with the words Dead Heart , and had them posted everywhere , upon the pavements , upon the walls , upon the trees in ...
... Dead Heart " was being played at his theatre . He ordered ten hundred thousand hearts to be printed in red , inscribed with the words Dead Heart , and had them posted everywhere , upon the pavements , upon the walls , upon the trees in ...
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... dead who is dumb as the dust - heaps of death ; Surely no soul is it , sweet as the spasm of erotic , emotional , exquisite error , Bathed in the balms of beatified bliss , beatific itself by beatitude's breath . Surely no spirit or ...
... dead who is dumb as the dust - heaps of death ; Surely no soul is it , sweet as the spasm of erotic , emotional , exquisite error , Bathed in the balms of beatified bliss , beatific itself by beatitude's breath . Surely no spirit or ...
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... dead pig's hide , not by scalding , but by singeing . This is an operation of some nicety ; for too much singeing would spoil the bacon . But practice makes perfect ; and by the aid of ignited stubble , straw , or paper the object is ...
... dead pig's hide , not by scalding , but by singeing . This is an operation of some nicety ; for too much singeing would spoil the bacon . But practice makes perfect ; and by the aid of ignited stubble , straw , or paper the object is ...
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... dead letter . See NECK - VERSE . Better half , a humorous colloquialism for a wife , makes its first appearance in English literature in Sidney's " Arcadia " ( 1580 ) , iii . 280 , where Argalus says to Parthenia , " My deare , my ...
... dead letter . See NECK - VERSE . Better half , a humorous colloquialism for a wife , makes its first appearance in English literature in Sidney's " Arcadia " ( 1580 ) , iii . 280 , where Argalus says to Parthenia , " My deare , my ...
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