Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1911 - 1104 pages Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... Things Not Worth Knowing , " the bulk of the matter herein contained being either in substance or in detail that which is deemed below the dignity of encyclopædias , dictionaries , or literary manuals . However , we are gradually coming ...
... Things Not Worth Knowing , " the bulk of the matter herein contained being either in substance or in detail that which is deemed below the dignity of encyclopædias , dictionaries , or literary manuals . However , we are gradually coming ...
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... things , or in medias res . Abacot , a spurious word which by a remarkable series of blunders has gained a foothold ... thing has any real existence . In Hall's “ Chronicles ” the word bicocket ( Old Fr. bicoquet , a sort of peaked cap ...
... things , or in medias res . Abacot , a spurious word which by a remarkable series of blunders has gained a foothold ... thing has any real existence . In Hall's “ Chronicles ” the word bicocket ( Old Fr. bicoquet , a sort of peaked cap ...
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... things , or in medias res . Abacot , a spurious word which by a remarkable series of blunders has gained a foothold ... thing has any real existence . In Hall's " Chronicles " the word bicocket ( Old Fr. bicoquet , a sort of peaked cap ...
... things , or in medias res . Abacot , a spurious word which by a remarkable series of blunders has gained a foothold ... thing has any real existence . In Hall's " Chronicles " the word bicocket ( Old Fr. bicoquet , a sort of peaked cap ...
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... thing ? " Action ! " And the third thing ? " Action ! " The saying has often been imitated . The Marshal de Trivulce , to the query of Louis XI . as to what he needed to make war , promptly replied , " Three things : money , more money ...
... thing ? " Action ! " And the third thing ? " Action ! " The saying has often been imitated . The Marshal de Trivulce , to the query of Louis XI . as to what he needed to make war , promptly replied , " Three things : money , more money ...
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... things that belong to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired " ( Essays : Of Adversity ) . Aristotle found in education " an ornament in pros- perity and a refuge in adversity ...
... things that belong to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired " ( Essays : Of Adversity ) . Aristotle found in education " an ornament in pros- perity and a refuge in adversity ...
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