Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 strán (strany) |
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... Acrostic ; artificial arrange- ment of this old - fashioned , yet still popular form of verse ; sometimes doubled in the middle or reversed in the end , as in the telistich ; some- times used to point alliteration or pasquinade ...
... Acrostic ; artificial arrange- ment of this old - fashioned , yet still popular form of verse ; sometimes doubled in the middle or reversed in the end , as in the telistich ; some- times used to point alliteration or pasquinade ...
Strana
... acrostic . - Ethnologic differences , Indian , African , Hiber- nian , Greek . — Antithesis extraordinary . — The printer's epitaph . - Speci- mens of brevity . - Laudatory verses . - Miscellaneous epitaphs - Earth to earth . - Byron's ...
... acrostic . - Ethnologic differences , Indian , African , Hiber- nian , Greek . — Antithesis extraordinary . — The printer's epitaph . - Speci- mens of brevity . - Laudatory verses . - Miscellaneous epitaphs - Earth to earth . - Byron's ...
Strana
... acrostic , though an old and favorite form of verse , in our own language has been almost wholly an exercise of inge- nuity , and has been considered fit only for trivial subjects , to be classed among nugæ literaria . The word in its ...
... acrostic , though an old and favorite form of verse , in our own language has been almost wholly an exercise of inge- nuity , and has been considered fit only for trivial subjects , to be classed among nugæ literaria . The word in its ...
Strana
... Acrostic ; where , from the first letters of each verse in order , words are formed which express some particular meaning ; as is the case with some of Ennius's verses , the initial letters of which make ' which Ennius wrote ! ' Among ...
... Acrostic ; where , from the first letters of each verse in order , words are formed which express some particular meaning ; as is the case with some of Ennius's verses , the initial letters of which make ' which Ennius wrote ! ' Among ...
Strana
... . L et hell receive you , riveted in chains , Doomed to the hottest focus of its flames . * Tristram Shandy . 1 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS . ALLITERATIVE ACROSTIC . THE following alliterative acrostic. 44 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS .
... . L et hell receive you , riveted in chains , Doomed to the hottest focus of its flames . * Tristram Shandy . 1 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS . ALLITERATIVE ACROSTIC . THE following alliterative acrostic. 44 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS .
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature Charles Carroll Bombaugh Úplné zobrazenie - 1875 |
Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature Charles Carroll Bombaugh Úplné zobrazenie - 1875 |
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acrostic Amy Robsart anagram appear asked beautiful Ben Jonson Bible Bishop blank verse body Cæsar called century child church curious dead Dean Swift dear death died Doneraile doth earth Echo England English English language epigram epitaph eyes fair father flower France French gentleman give grave Greek hand hath head hear heart heaven holy honor hundred inscription John Julius Cæsar King lady language Latin learned letter lines live look Lord marabout marriage meaning Miss never night o'er original Palindromes PASQUINADE person poem poet porringer pray prayer Queen remarkable replied rhyme Rome says seven Shakspeare Sir Tray Sir Walter Scott sleep soul sweet tell thee Theodore Hook thing thou thought tion translation unto verse wife woman word write written wrote young Есно