Table-talk; Or, Selections from the Ana: Containing Extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With Bibliographical Notices |
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... verses , to which he had prefixed a dedication , in these words : " A Guillemette , chienne de ma soeur . " Sometime after , having quarrelled with his sister , just as he was preparing for the press a collection of his poems , he ...
... verses , to which he had prefixed a dedication , in these words : " A Guillemette , chienne de ma soeur . " Sometime after , having quarrelled with his sister , just as he was preparing for the press a collection of his poems , he ...
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... verse the prose of Rabelais , believing him really to have been the author of the tale . It has been also very ele- gantly versified in Latin Anacreontics , by La Mon- noye himself . LII . ORACLES . A person who had some dangerous ...
... verse the prose of Rabelais , believing him really to have been the author of the tale . It has been also very ele- gantly versified in Latin Anacreontics , by La Mon- noye himself . LII . ORACLES . A person who had some dangerous ...
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... VERSE . GUALTIER DE LILLE . It has been long disputed who was the author of the celebrated verse which has become prover- bial , - " Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim . ” It has subsequently been discovered , that it is D the ...
... VERSE . GUALTIER DE LILLE . It has been long disputed who was the author of the celebrated verse which has become prover- bial , - " Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim . ” It has subsequently been discovered , that it is D the ...
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... verse in question is the 301st of the 5th Book , where the poet , apostrophising Darius , who in flying from Alexander , fell into the hands of Bessus , expresses himself thus : --- 66 -Quo flectis inertem , Rex periture , fugam ...
... verse in question is the 301st of the 5th Book , where the poet , apostrophising Darius , who in flying from Alexander , fell into the hands of Bessus , expresses himself thus : --- 66 -Quo flectis inertem , Rex periture , fugam ...
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... verses of twelve syllables , which have retained the name of Alexandrines , lived about the close of the 12th century . .LXXIV . A LUCKY HIT . Two persons , playing for a considerable sum with a pair of dice , agreed that the person who ...
... verses of twelve syllables , which have retained the name of Alexandrines , lived about the close of the 12th century . .LXXIV . A LUCKY HIT . Two persons , playing for a considerable sum with a pair of dice , agreed that the person who ...
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