Gleanings From the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous and Instructive (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Gleanings From the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous and Instructive

Lord North, one of the finest gentlemen in the Court of James I., has written a set of sonnets, each of which begins with a successive letter of the alphabet. The Earl of Rivers, in the reign of Edward IV., translated the Moral Proverbs of Christiana of Pisa, a poem of about two hundred lines, almost all the words of which he contrived to conclude with the letter E.

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