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... reader of N. & Q. ' supply the words of the doggerel in which wishes for the welfare of the fox were embodied , and ... readers tell me where I may find the poem containing these lines ? WM . C. VAN ANTWERP . Broadway , New York . THE ...
... reader of N. & Q. ' supply the words of the doggerel in which wishes for the welfare of the fox were embodied , and ... readers tell me where I may find the poem containing these lines ? WM . C. VAN ANTWERP . Broadway , New York . THE ...
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... reading a very witty parody of The Village Blacksmith ' some years ago in a paper or review , but forget where . Can a reader of N. & Q. ' say where it may - Has any list come down to us of the ships be found ? It is not in a recently ...
... reading a very witty parody of The Village Blacksmith ' some years ago in a paper or review , but forget where . Can a reader of N. & Q. ' say where it may - Has any list come down to us of the ships be found ? It is not in a recently ...
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... Readers can now secure at a moderate cost an edition which is well printed , well edited , and exceptionally well ... reader ; we should prefer to see in plain English such a sentence as this : " But variations from the blue bed to the ...
... Readers can now secure at a moderate cost an edition which is well printed , well edited , and exceptionally well ... reader ; we should prefer to see in plain English such a sentence as this : " But variations from the blue bed to the ...
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... readers will welcome this admirable edition . It has an excellent index to every separate item of verse and prose , and a remarkable col- lection of portraits of Thackeray . 64 The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift . Edited by Temple Scott ...
... readers will welcome this admirable edition . It has an excellent index to every separate item of verse and prose , and a remarkable col- lection of portraits of Thackeray . 64 The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift . Edited by Temple Scott ...
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Strona 419 - Theoretically, of course, one ought always to try for the best word. But practically, the habit of excessive care in word-selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity; and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best word too easily becomes the habit of always taking the most ornate word, the word most removed from ordinary speech.