Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 psl. |
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... France is saved" ("De l'audace, et encore de l'audace, et toujours de I'audace, et la France est sauveV'). Had Danton read Spenser as well as Plutarch ? In the " Faerie Queene" (iii. 1 1, 54) are the following lines : And as she lookt ...
... France is saved" ("De l'audace, et encore de l'audace, et toujours de I'audace, et la France est sauveV'). Had Danton read Spenser as well as Plutarch ? In the " Faerie Queene" (iii. 1 1, 54) are the following lines : And as she lookt ...
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... France that the English were treacherous. It is certainly great injustice to reckon treachery among the vices familiar to the English. " The following lines are said to have been composed by Philip of Valois on the occasion of Edward ...
... France that the English were treacherous. It is certainly great injustice to reckon treachery among the vices familiar to the English. " The following lines are said to have been composed by Philip of Valois on the occasion of Edward ...
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... France during a pestilence : " At what period was this great plan of conquest and constipation fully developed ? In whose mind was the idea of destroying the pride and the plasters of France first engendered ? Without castor oil they ...
... France during a pestilence : " At what period was this great plan of conquest and constipation fully developed ? In whose mind was the idea of destroying the pride and the plasters of France first engendered ? Without castor oil they ...
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... Wales: P. C. Her august race is lost, 0 fatal news! An anagram in which British regret over the decease of the Princess Charlotte enshrined itself. JfAQUES Clement, the assassin of Henry III. of France, Qui 56 HANDY-BOOK OF.
... Wales: P. C. Her august race is lost, 0 fatal news! An anagram in which British regret over the decease of the Princess Charlotte enshrined itself. JfAQUES Clement, the assassin of Henry III. of France, Qui 56 HANDY-BOOK OF.
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William S. Walsh. JfAQUES Clement, the assassin of Henry III. of France, Qui est ce mat ? (Who is this ill-born person?). Very good from the point of view of the believer in the divine right of kings, but thrown utterly in the shade by ...
William S. Walsh. JfAQUES Clement, the assassin of Henry III. of France, Qui est ce mat ? (Who is this ill-born person?). Very good from the point of view of the believer in the divine right of kings, but thrown utterly in the shade by ...
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