Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 páginas |
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... translating alternate lines of a favorite poem , as a sort of burlesque on its stately march . F Chain Verse . 78 NEW good specimens extant of this conceit , in which the last word of every line or verse is used as the first word of the ...
... translating alternate lines of a favorite poem , as a sort of burlesque on its stately march . F Chain Verse . 78 NEW good specimens extant of this conceit , in which the last word of every line or verse is used as the first word of the ...
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... translations , from Wickliff's , in 1384 , to the version of King James in 1611. - Numerical dissection of the Old and New Testaments . - The distinctions particularly observable in the gospels . - Books referred to in the Bible which ...
... translations , from Wickliff's , in 1384 , to the version of King James in 1611. - Numerical dissection of the Old and New Testaments . - The distinctions particularly observable in the gospels . - Books referred to in the Bible which ...
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... translation of the Iliad . Mechanical structure of Pope's versification . - Importance of punctuation , and the serious errors that may arise from its neglect.— Indian heraldry as pointed out by a genealogical enthusiast . - Shaks ...
... translation of the Iliad . Mechanical structure of Pope's versification . - Importance of punctuation , and the serious errors that may arise from its neglect.— Indian heraldry as pointed out by a genealogical enthusiast . - Shaks ...
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... translated the Moral Proverbs of Christiana of Pisa , a poem of about two 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 ...
... translated the Moral Proverbs of Christiana of Pisa , a poem of about two 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 ...
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... David , and in other parts of Scripture , striking specimens occur . The peculiarity is not retained in the translations , but is indicated in the common version of the 119th Psalm by the initial letters prefixed 40 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS .
... David , and in other parts of Scripture , striking specimens occur . The peculiarity is not retained in the translations , but is indicated in the common version of the 119th Psalm by the initial letters prefixed 40 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS .
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