Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers: A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose from the Earliest Times to the Pressent, Volume 1Charles Townsend Copeland Scribner's, 1931 - American literature |
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... matter , is wearisome ; to use none at all is blunt . " When a ten - minute speech is the matter in hand , one must be blunt . And so I abruptly inform the few unlettered persons in this great company that Bacon's Essays , like the lion ...
... matter , is wearisome ; to use none at all is blunt . " When a ten - minute speech is the matter in hand , one must be blunt . And so I abruptly inform the few unlettered persons in this great company that Bacon's Essays , like the lion ...
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... matters cried in the top of mine -an excellent play , well digested in the scenes , set down with as much modesty as cunning . I remember , one said there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savoury , nor no matter in the ...
... matters cried in the top of mine -an excellent play , well digested in the scenes , set down with as much modesty as cunning . I remember , one said there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savoury , nor no matter in the ...
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... matter ? Hated by one he loves ; brav'd by his brother ; Bru . Yes , Cassius ; and , for hence- forth , Check'd like a bondman ; all his faults observ'd , When you are over earnest with your Brutus , Set in a note - book , learn'd and ...
... matter ? Hated by one he loves ; brav'd by his brother ; Bru . Yes , Cassius ; and , for hence- forth , Check'd like a bondman ; all his faults observ'd , When you are over earnest with your Brutus , Set in a note - book , learn'd and ...
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