Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 páginas |
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... LOST . There's no want of meat , sir ; portly and curious viands are prepared to please all kinds of appetites . MASSINGER . A dinner of fragments is said often to be the best dinner . So are there few minds but might furnish some ...
... LOST . There's no want of meat , sir ; portly and curious viands are prepared to please all kinds of appetites . MASSINGER . A dinner of fragments is said often to be the best dinner . So are there few minds but might furnish some ...
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... lost . - The word " Selah " in the Psalms.- Hexametric rhythm in the sacred writings . The parallelism of the Hebrew poetry , with illustrations of the artificial structure which aims at a regular and impressive alternation and ...
... lost . - The word " Selah " in the Psalms.- Hexametric rhythm in the sacred writings . The parallelism of the Hebrew poetry , with illustrations of the artificial structure which aims at a regular and impressive alternation and ...
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... lost between them , " and " the forlorn hope . " -- The word " quiz . " - Tennyson's English.— Misapplication of the quotation , " That mine adversary had written a book . ” — Odd changes of signification in various other words . — The ...
... lost between them , " and " the forlorn hope . " -- The word " quiz . " - Tennyson's English.— Misapplication of the quotation , " That mine adversary had written a book . ” — Odd changes of signification in various other words . — The ...
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... Lost , I. 2. - Combination lock . - Wonderful rapidity in the manufacture of cloth . - Difference between the value of crude mate- rial and that of wrought material . - Relation of value to quantity.— Amount of gold in the world ...
... Lost , I. 2. - Combination lock . - Wonderful rapidity in the manufacture of cloth . - Difference between the value of crude mate- rial and that of wrought material . - Relation of value to quantity.— Amount of gold in the world ...
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... lost to sight , to memory dear.— The worse for the facts . - Conspicuous by absence . - Do as I say , not as I do . E Churchyard Literature . 556 PITAPHS of eminent men . - Tombstone inscriptions peculiarly eulogistic , apt , and ...
... lost to sight , to memory dear.— The worse for the facts . - Conspicuous by absence . - Do as I say , not as I do . E Churchyard Literature . 556 PITAPHS of eminent men . - Tombstone inscriptions peculiarly eulogistic , apt , and ...
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