Project Gutenberg 2021-10-14 Public domain in the USA. 98 Bombaugh, Charles C. (Charles Carroll) 1828 1906 Bombaugh, Charles Carroll Bombaugh, C. C. (Charles Carroll) Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature : $b A melange of excerpta 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. 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) en Literary curiosa PN Text Browsing: Literature 1266611 1266619 2024-08-27T09:51:25.444261 2023-09-28T09:49:04.978067 text/html text/html 1292593 2021-10-14T19:11:18 text/html 829599 2024-08-27T09:51:50.852100 application/epub+zip 820107 2024-08-27T09:51:29.896217 application/epub+zip 586471 2024-08-27T09:51:27.646246 application/epub+zip 1427154 2024-08-27T09:52:10.022501 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1090273 2024-08-27T09:51:47.962156 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 857629 2022-09-29T21:41:01.204062 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1043597 1043628 2024-08-27T09:51:21.419267 2023-09-28T09:49:01.099448 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1043424 2021-10-14T19:11:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18516 2024-08-27T09:52:10.469494 application/rdf+xml 9810 2024-08-27T09:51:27.914210 image/jpeg 1856 2024-08-27T09:51:27.781211 image/jpeg 408567 2021-10-14T19:11:22 application/octet-stream application/zip 746978 2021-10-14T19:11:22 application/octet-stream application/zip 753783 2024-08-27T09:51:25.545250 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog