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Compiler | Bombaugh, Charles C. (Charles Carroll), 1828-1906 |
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Title | Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature : A melange of excerpta |
Contents | Americana -- Our national airs -- Our historic characters -- Our wonderlands -- Our language -- First things -- Prototypes -- Forecasts -- Miscellanea curiosa -- Facetiæ -- Flashes of repartee -- The word-twisting of the punsters -- Clever hits of the humorists -- The hits of the satirists -- Evasions of ambiguity -- Comical blunders -- Missing the point of the jokes -- Even Homer sometimes nods -- The stretches of poetic license -- Misquotation -- Falsities and fallacies -- Legendary lore -- Parallel passages -- The wit of the epigrammatists -- Enigmas -- Voices from God's Acre -- The honeyed phrase of compliment -- The mazes of obscurity -- Ideal physical proportions -- Famous beauties -- Female poisoners -- Brevities -- Toasts and mottoes -- Finis coronat opus. |
Credits | Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
Language | English |
LoC Class | PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections |
Subject | Literary curiosa |
Category | Text |
EBook-No. | 66541 |
Release Date | Oct 14, 2021 |
Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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