Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and WisdomIvison, 1880 - Всего страниц: 302 |
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... strange indeed if , after the score of years that have elapsed since the book was composed , more than half of the score spent in active journalism ( than which no schooling is more admirably fitted to take the nonsense out of a man ) ...
... strange indeed if , after the score of years that have elapsed since the book was composed , more than half of the score spent in active journalism ( than which no schooling is more admirably fitted to take the nonsense out of a man ) ...
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... strange lessons they teach , to catch of the wit and the wisdom , the puns and the poetries , the philosophies , the fancies and the follies that lurk in and flash out from them , and to seize , flaming down , as it were , from the ...
... strange lessons they teach , to catch of the wit and the wisdom , the puns and the poetries , the philosophies , the fancies and the follies that lurk in and flash out from them , and to seize , flaming down , as it were , from the ...
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... strange tale , too , does ' SAUNTER ' tell ! The Crusades rise at the spell . Saunt and Terre - the holy land — is the composition of the term and so , literally , a going to the Holy Land . But as this originally meritorious ...
... strange tale , too , does ' SAUNTER ' tell ! The Crusades rise at the spell . Saunt and Terre - the holy land — is the composition of the term and so , literally , a going to the Holy Land . But as this originally meritorious ...
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... strange yet unmis- takable language ; and to me , even " The ineanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears . " This idealism of language rests on no whim , but is a primary and necessary fact . Up ...
... strange yet unmis- takable language ; and to me , even " The ineanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears . " This idealism of language rests on no whim , but is a primary and necessary fact . Up ...
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... strange regions do they flow through . The cozenage of Words brings out many queer affiliations . ' DEBAUCH ' is an instance . It tells us that it was at first merely the attempt to draw a work- man de ( son ) bauche - from his shop ...
... strange regions do they flow through . The cozenage of Words brings out many queer affiliations . ' DEBAUCH ' is an instance . It tells us that it was at first merely the attempt to draw a work- man de ( son ) bauche - from his shop ...
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