The SpectatorH. Washbourne, 1850 - Počet stran: 722 |
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Strana 69
... verses were to be cramped or ter upon extended to the dimensions of the frame that was riulness . prepared for them , and to undergo the fate of those ers , I shall persons whom the tyrant Procrustes used to lodge in stinguish the his ...
... verses were to be cramped or ter upon extended to the dimensions of the frame that was riulness . prepared for them , and to undergo the fate of those ers , I shall persons whom the tyrant Procrustes used to lodge in stinguish the his ...
Strana 71
... verses , and by that means written , after the manner of the Chinese , in a perpendicular line . But besides these there are compound acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . wanted ge- I have seen some of them ...
... verses , and by that means written , after the manner of the Chinese , in a perpendicular line . But besides these there are compound acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . wanted ge- I have seen some of them ...
Strana 72
... verses to them . I do not know any greater in- stance of the decay of wit and learning among the French ( which generally follows the declension of and empire ) than the endeavouring to restore this foolish kind of wit . If the reader ...
... verses to them . I do not know any greater in- stance of the decay of wit and learning among the French ( which generally follows the declension of and empire ) than the endeavouring to restore this foolish kind of wit . If the reader ...
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