Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 sider |
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Side 5
... Anagram . Autographs and Autograph - Hunters . Bathos . Bibles , Curious Biblioklept Bibliomania 52 Irony 561 71 · ཚ 8 ཁ Jesuitical Compositions or Equivoques . 574 Laconic 598 Lion - Hunter , The 638 Lipograms . 643 95 Literal Sense ...
... Anagram . Autographs and Autograph - Hunters . Bathos . Bibles , Curious Biblioklept Bibliomania 52 Irony 561 71 · ཚ 8 ཁ Jesuitical Compositions or Equivoques . 574 Laconic 598 Lion - Hunter , The 638 Lipograms . 643 95 Literal Sense ...
Side 52
... Anagram ( Gr . ¿ váypaμμa ; ává , up , or back , and ypuuua , a letter ) . A re- arrangement of the letters of a name , a word , or a sentence . In order to be perfect , the result should be a word or words reacting upon the original as ...
... Anagram ( Gr . ¿ váypaμμa ; ává , up , or back , and ypuuua , a letter ) . A re- arrangement of the letters of a name , a word , or a sentence . In order to be perfect , the result should be a word or words reacting upon the original as ...
Side 53
... anagrams are exact or pure , and , as such , are the earliest examples that have survived to our day . Another famous historical anagram refers to the siege of Troy by Alexander . That monarch was about to aban- don the enterprise in ...
... anagrams are exact or pure , and , as such , are the earliest examples that have survived to our day . Another famous historical anagram refers to the siege of Troy by Alexander . That monarch was about to aban- don the enterprise in ...
Side 54
... anagram under which he published his " Castle of Otranto , " and the equally imperfect BRYAN WALLER PROCTER , Barry Cornwall , Poet . But the most famous case , and one in which the anagram has entirely overshadowed the original name ...
... anagram under which he published his " Castle of Otranto , " and the equally imperfect BRYAN WALLER PROCTER , Barry Cornwall , Poet . But the most famous case , and one in which the anagram has entirely overshadowed the original name ...
Side 55
... anagrams have been rolled down to us . One may assert that all the really superb anagrams now extant might be contained in a pill - box . Such a pill - box we shall aim to present to our readers . And first we offer an alphabetical ...
... anagrams have been rolled down to us . One may assert that all the really superb anagrams now extant might be contained in a pill - box . Such a pill - box we shall aim to present to our readers . And first we offer an alphabetical ...
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Side 739 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Side 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Side 579 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
Side 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Side 197 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Side 109 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Side 739 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Side 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Side 301 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Side 250 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.