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Book Playing Fast and Loose

Download or read book Playing Fast and Loose written by Michael K. Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the origin of the idiom playing fast and loose? a juggling trick using ropes performed in Roman times a Medieval cheating game involving sticks and belts the sordid sale of indulgences in the Catholic Church Playing Fast and Loose invites the reader to guess the correct origin of common idioms. For each of the fifty idioms, three scenarios have been constructed. One scenario contains a short description of the likely origin of the phrase with some selected historical context that illustrates its usage. The other two scenarios also present short vignettes with factually correct historical citations; however, these two descriptions are not considered the likely origin of the phrase. Dr. Smith has researched all the idioms in this book with the Google Books search engine. He read dozens of entries for each idiom, looking for evidence to support the origin of the idiom and for interesting and credible uses of the phrase to help create the two alternative scenarios. The three scenarios contain references to famous Greek and Latin authors from Homer and Aristotle to Seneca, Vergil, and Ovid; excerpts from English sources such as Shakespeare, Milton, Defoe, Scott, and Conan Doyle; and quotations from American authors as varied as Thoreau, Emerson, Twain, and P. T. Barnum. In addition, the reader will encounter many unusual and perhaps long forgotten historical sources: James Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson (1859); Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747); Elbert Smith, Practical Notes on Photography (1905); Bolton Hall, The Psychology of Sleep (1917); and Friedrich Christian Accum, Chemical Amusement, a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry Which Are Easily Performed and Unattended by Danger (1817).

Book A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue Compacte in a Matter Concernyng the Maner of Mariages Made and Set Foorth by Ioh a N Heywood

Download or read book A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue Compacte in a Matter Concernyng the Maner of Mariages Made and Set Foorth by Ioh a N Heywood written by and published by . This book was released on 1549 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illustrated London News

Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annotations to William Faulkner s The Hamlet

Download or read book Annotations to William Faulkner s The Hamlet written by Catherine D. Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annotations in this volume, originally published in 1996, intend to assist the reader of Faulkner’s The Hamlet to understand obscure or difficult words and passages, including literary allusions, dialect, and historical events that Faulkner uses or alludes to. This title will be of great interest to students of literature.

Book History of English Poetry

Download or read book History of English Poetry written by Thomas Warton and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of English Poetry from the Close of the 11 to the Commencement of the 18 Century To which are Prefixed 3 Dissertatioms 1 of the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe 2 on the Introduction of Learning Into England 3 on the Gesta Romanorum New Ed etc

Download or read book The History of English Poetry from the Close of the 11 to the Commencement of the 18 Century To which are Prefixed 3 Dissertatioms 1 of the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe 2 on the Introduction of Learning Into England 3 on the Gesta Romanorum New Ed etc written by Thomas Warton and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics

Download or read book English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics written by Heinrich F Plett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive bibliography lists some 500 source texts published in the British Isles or abroad from 1479 to 1660 and more than 2,000 works of secondary literature from 1900 to the present.

Book The History of English Poetry

Download or read book The History of English Poetry written by Thomas Warton and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes and Queries Number 60 December 21 1850

Download or read book Notes and Queries Number 60 December 21 1850 written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Multilingual Dictionary of Maxims and Proverbs

Download or read book A Multilingual Dictionary of Maxims and Proverbs written by Panos Karagiorgos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains 300 Greek maxims and proverbs accompanied by their counterparts in eight European languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, and Russian. The introduction relates the history, the origin, and the importance of proverbs; it also includes a short chapter on the use of proverbs in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Modern Greek literature. This book is a useful companion both for translators and interpreters; a vade mecum not only for them, but also for every learner of the above mentioned European languages.