Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 páginas |
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... meaning , Cross , cross yourself ; you annoy and vex me without necessity ; for owing to my exertions , Rome , the object of your wishes , will soon be near . ] The Palindrome changes the sense in the backward reading ; the Versus ...
... meaning , Cross , cross yourself ; you annoy and vex me without necessity ; for owing to my exertions , Rome , the object of your wishes , will soon be near . ] The Palindrome changes the sense in the backward reading ; the Versus ...
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... to Dr. Sheridan , composed of Latin words strung together as mere gibberish but each word , when * Meaning in substance , Purify the mind as well as the body . - read backwards , makes passable English . Take for example. 60 PALINDROMES .
... to Dr. Sheridan , composed of Latin words strung together as mere gibberish but each word , when * Meaning in substance , Purify the mind as well as the body . - read backwards , makes passable English . Take for example. 60 PALINDROMES .
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... meaning void , Which reads both ways the same : and here , with your permission , I'll cite some half a score of samples , lacking all precision ( But held together by loose rhymes , to test my definition ) : — " A milksop , jilted by ...
... meaning void , Which reads both ways the same : and here , with your permission , I'll cite some half a score of samples , lacking all precision ( But held together by loose rhymes , to test my definition ) : — " A milksop , jilted by ...
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... MEANING . Count Valavoir , a general in the French service under Tu- renne , while encamped before the enemy , attempted one night to pass a sentinel . The sentinel challenged him , and the count answered " Va - la - voir , " which ...
... MEANING . Count Valavoir , a general in the French service under Tu- renne , while encamped before the enemy , attempted one night to pass a sentinel . The sentinel challenged him , and the count answered " Va - la - voir , " which ...
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... meaning to many terms of natural objects . Without this holdfast , our vitiated imaginations would refine away language to mere abstractions . Hence the French have lost their poetical language ; and Blanco White says the same thing has ...
... meaning to many terms of natural objects . Without this holdfast , our vitiated imaginations would refine away language to mere abstractions . Hence the French have lost their poetical language ; and Blanco White says the same thing has ...
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