A Treasury of Humorous Poetry: Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American PoetsFrederic Lawrence Knowles |
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Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American Poets Frederic Lawrence Knowles. ORIGINAL POETRY BY FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Love Triumphant A Book of Poems On Life's ...
Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American Poets Frederic Lawrence Knowles. ORIGINAL POETRY BY FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Love Triumphant A Book of Poems On Life's ...
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Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American Poets Frederic Lawrence Knowles .5. PREFACE “The great end of comedy,” said Doctor Johnson, in.
Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American Poets Frederic Lawrence Knowles .5. PREFACE “The great end of comedy,” said Doctor Johnson, in.
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... verse , epigram , or satire . The selections vary from broadly comic to merely facetious and lively . It is interesting to observe how the public taste has changed . In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centu- ries the dominant ...
... verse , epigram , or satire . The selections vary from broadly comic to merely facetious and lively . It is interesting to observe how the public taste has changed . In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centu- ries the dominant ...
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... verse are included in " The Canterbury Poets ” series of Walter Scott , London , and the " Cap and Gown " series of L. C. Page & Company , Boston . Collections of both prose and verse are Morris's " Half - hours with the Best Humor- ous ...
... verse are included in " The Canterbury Poets ” series of Walter Scott , London , and the " Cap and Gown " series of L. C. Page & Company , Boston . Collections of both prose and verse are Morris's " Half - hours with the Best Humor- ous ...
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Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American Poets Frederic Lawrence Knowles. Lowell , John Godfrey Saxe , Edward Rowland Sill , Bayard Taylor , Charles Henry Webb ...
Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American Poets Frederic Lawrence Knowles. Lowell , John Godfrey Saxe , Edward Rowland Sill , Bayard Taylor , Charles Henry Webb ...
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