Reader! Walk Up at Once (it Will Soon be Too Late) and Buy at a Perfectly Ruinous Rate A Fable for Critics: Or, Better, (I Like, as a Thing that the Reader's First Fancy May Strike, an Old-fashioned Title-page Such as Presents a Tabular View of the Volume's Contents) a Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies :(Mrs. Malaprop's Word) from the Tub of Diogenes : a Vocal and Musical Medley, that Is, a Series of JokesPutnam, 1848 - 78 страница |
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... Greek particles , They filled up the space nothing else was prepared for , And nobody read that which nobody cared for ; If any old book reached a fiftieth edition , He could fill forty pages with safe erudition ; He could gauge the old ...
... Greek particles , They filled up the space nothing else was prepared for , And nobody read that which nobody cared for ; If any old book reached a fiftieth edition , He could fill forty pages with safe erudition ; He could gauge the old ...
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... - eyed Olympian , rapid and slim ; The one ' s two - thirds Norseman , the other half Greek , Where the one ' s most abounding , the other ' s to seek ; C.'s generals require to be seen in the mass , 28 A FABLE FOR THE CRITICS .
... - eyed Olympian , rapid and slim ; The one ' s two - thirds Norseman , the other half Greek , Where the one ' s most abounding , the other ' s to seek ; C.'s generals require to be seen in the mass , 28 A FABLE FOR THE CRITICS .
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... Greek metres in English , To me rhyme ' s a gain , so it be not too jinglish , And your modern hexameter verses are no more Like Greek ones than sleek Mr Pope is like Homer ; As the roar of the sea to the coo of a pigeon is So ...
... Greek metres in English , To me rhyme ' s a gain , so it be not too jinglish , And your modern hexameter verses are no more Like Greek ones than sleek Mr Pope is like Homer ; As the roar of the sea to the coo of a pigeon is So ...
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