Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 pages Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... Essays . " Prosperity is a great teacher ; adversity is a greater " ( On the Conversation of Lords ) . And the arch - plagiarist Disraeli , in " Endymion , " ch . Ixi . , gives us the aphorism , " There is no education like adversity ...
... Essays . " Prosperity is a great teacher ; adversity is a greater " ( On the Conversation of Lords ) . And the arch - plagiarist Disraeli , in " Endymion , " ch . Ixi . , gives us the aphorism , " There is no education like adversity ...
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... essay For fame , for fortune , forming furious fray ; Gaunt gunners grapple , giving gashes good ; Heaves high his head , heric hardihood ; Ibraham , Islam , Ismail , imps in ill , Jostle John , Jarovlitz , Jem , Joe , Jack , Jill ...
... essay For fame , for fortune , forming furious fray ; Gaunt gunners grapple , giving gashes good ; Heaves high his head , heric hardihood ; Ibraham , Islam , Ismail , imps in ill , Jostle John , Jarovlitz , Jem , Joe , Jack , Jill ...
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... essays , and treatises without once raising the unmeaning taboo . Others have made inordinate use of some letter and insisted that it should form the initial of every word . The first called their Procrustean method lipogrammatizing ...
... essays , and treatises without once raising the unmeaning taboo . Others have made inordinate use of some letter and insisted that it should form the initial of every word . The first called their Procrustean method lipogrammatizing ...
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... essays his hand at what may possibly be the earliest example . Speaking of periodical literature , he declares that the Golden Age of Maga- zires has passed away : " In those days A was an Antiquary , and wrote articles upon Altars and ...
... essays his hand at what may possibly be the earliest example . Speaking of periodical literature , he declares that the Golden Age of Maga- zires has passed away : " In those days A was an Antiquary , and wrote articles upon Altars and ...
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... Essay on Criticism , " II . , 1. 32 , which aims to illustrate the growing labors of science and learning . Dr. Johnson has praised this simile as the most apt , the most proper , the most sublime of any in the English language . " The ...
... Essay on Criticism , " II . , 1. 32 , which aims to illustrate the growing labors of science and learning . Dr. Johnson has praised this simile as the most apt , the most proper , the most sublime of any in the English language . " The ...
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