Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 94Macmillan and Company, 1906 - English literature |
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Page 147
... common to all exclusive coteries , of being governed by fashion rather than by common - sense . The result was a preposterous mode of talking and writing which received the name of préciosité , and which became more extravagant still in ...
... common to all exclusive coteries , of being governed by fashion rather than by common - sense . The result was a preposterous mode of talking and writing which received the name of préciosité , and which became more extravagant still in ...
Page 598
... common speech to - day with probably no knowledge of their derivation . In one of his little poems Wendell Holmes has the line , " There'll be the devil to pay , " a term in very common use , often with the addition , " and no pitch hot ...
... common speech to - day with probably no knowledge of their derivation . In one of his little poems Wendell Holmes has the line , " There'll be the devil to pay , " a term in very common use , often with the addition , " and no pitch hot ...
Page 857
all were about to feast in common , it would be chiefly at one family's expense , and there are rich and poor in every tribe . But , on the other hand , most of the land is held in common , and most of the quarrels and wars with the ...
all were about to feast in common , it would be chiefly at one family's expense , and there are rich and poor in every tribe . But , on the other hand , most of the land is held in common , and most of the quarrels and wars with the ...
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