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... upon fold of hueless cloud , And the budded peaks of the wood are bow'd , Caught and cuff'd by the gale : I had fancied it would be fair . The contemporary American writer H. L. Mencken was a past Deviations from " Normal " Style 163.
... upon fold of hueless cloud , And the budded peaks of the wood are bow'd , Caught and cuff'd by the gale : I had fancied it would be fair . The contemporary American writer H. L. Mencken was a past Deviations from " Normal " Style 163.
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Richard Daniel Altick. The contemporary American writer H. L. Mencken was a past master of the use of both kinds of incongruities - the pretentious and the col- loquial for comic effect . His three volumes of autobiography ( Happy Days ...
Richard Daniel Altick. The contemporary American writer H. L. Mencken was a past master of the use of both kinds of incongruities - the pretentious and the col- loquial for comic effect . His three volumes of autobiography ( Happy Days ...
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