Poetical Ingenuities and EccentricitiesWilliam T. Dobson Chatto and Windus, 1882 - 254 стор. |
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... letter written by his friend Mr. Blucher to a Parisian hotel - keeper , which was as follows : 666 " MONSIEUR LE LANDLORD : Sir - Pourquoi don't you mettez some savon in your bed - chambers ? Est 112 MACARONIC VERSE .
... letter written by his friend Mr. Blucher to a Parisian hotel - keeper , which was as follows : 666 " MONSIEUR LE LANDLORD : Sir - Pourquoi don't you mettez some savon in your bed - chambers ? Est 112 MACARONIC VERSE .
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... letters , anecdotes , idiotisms , proverbs , and to second a coin's index . " The Works which we were confering for this labour , find use us for nothing ; but those what were publishing to Portugal , or out . They were almost all ...
... letters , anecdotes , idiotisms , proverbs , and to second a coin's index . " The Works which we were confering for this labour , find use us for nothing ; but those what were publishing to Portugal , or out . They were almost all ...
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... the jargon formed in its service . The Chinese have great difficulty in using the letter r , pronouncing it almost always like , as loom for room , cly for cry ; and for the sake of euphony often add ee or lo to the 122 LINGUISTIC VERSE .
... the jargon formed in its service . The Chinese have great difficulty in using the letter r , pronouncing it almost always like , as loom for room , cly for cry ; and for the sake of euphony often add ee or lo to the 122 LINGUISTIC VERSE .
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... Letters - Law , From these our heads we cannot draw : Our loves drop off , our hearts drop in , And daily thicker grows our skin . We scarcely live , we scarcely know The wide world's moving ebb and flow , The clanging currents ring and ...
... Letters - Law , From these our heads we cannot draw : Our loves drop off , our hearts drop in , And daily thicker grows our skin . We scarcely live , we scarcely know The wide world's moving ebb and flow , The clanging currents ring and ...
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... Letters to a Plenipo Send not by our footman Joe . Would you Job's full merit know , Ring the bell , and wait for Joe ; Whether it be king or no , ' Tis just alike to lazy Joe . Legal process none can show , If your lawyer move like Joe ...
... Letters to a Plenipo Send not by our footman Joe . Would you Job's full merit know , Ring the bell , and wait for Joe ; Whether it be king or no , ' Tis just alike to lazy Joe . Legal process none can show , If your lawyer move like Joe ...
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