Handbook of Familiar Quotations from English authors. The dedication is signed I. R. P.
Author : I. R. P.
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Page : 336 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : I. R. P.
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Page : 336 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Cambridge University Press
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108068634
This collection of verse quotations, ranging from Genesis to Wordsworth, is reissued here in its revised third edition of 1859.
Author : John Bartlett
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Quotations
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Author : Robin Langley Sommer
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Latin language
ISBN : 9780963667373
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : M.P. Singh
Publisher : Lotus Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : 9788183820080
Author : Garson O'Toole
Publisher : Little A
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Common fallacies
ISBN : 9781503933415
"Extensive and brilliant investigations...a tour de force of detective work...Mr. O'Toole is a beacon of accuracy who should inspire all readers who prefer their facts real rather than phony." --Wall Street Journal Everywhere you look, you'll find viral quotable wisdom attributed to icons ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Mark Twain, from Cicero to Woody Allen. But more often than not, these attributions are false. Garson O'Toole--the Internet's foremost investigator into the dubious origins of our most repeated quotations, aphorisms, and everyday sayings--collects his efforts into a first-ever encyclopedia of corrective popular history. Containing an enormous amount of original research, this delightful compendium presents information previously unavailable to readers, writers, and scholars. It also serves as the first careful examination of what causes misquotations and how they spread across the globe. Using the massive expansion in online databases as well as old-fashioned gumshoe archival digging, O'Toole provides a fascinating study of our modern abilities to find and correct misinformation. As Carl Sagan did not say, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1906924333
Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .
Author : Dwight Garner
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0374722145
A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades. From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner’s Quotations is like no commonplace book you’ll ever read. If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on in the world of letters today, this book will make you sit up and take notice. Unputdownable!
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Page : 1770 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Great Britain
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