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An alphabet of history (1905)

Nesbit, Wilbur Dick, 1871-1927, Young, Ellsworth, Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947. asn CU-BANC, Paul Elder and Company. (1905) bkp CU-BANC, Tomoyé Press. (1905) bkp CU-BANC · San Francisco : Paul Elder and Company Publishers · leaf 25

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s set down by Quint., And so must he who risesTo heights of glowing fame by dint Of the justly famous to be or not to be, centerof the stage, two spotlights sizzling, whenhe as Hamlet soliloquizes. Quintilian, we are fain to say, Was It on oratory,And even in this later day Receives his share of… … ALEIGH Sir Walter Raleigh was a man Of excellent deportment;He could advise a King or Khan What going into court meant;When Spenser wrote his Faerie Queene Sir Walter Raleigh said itBetrayed a wit both sharp and clean(We wonder if he read it.). Good Queen Elizabeth one day Was out (perhaps for…

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