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Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «This volume includes «The Battle of the Books» and «The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit», both which accompanied «A Tale of a Tub» on its first publication in 1704.»
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Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ... My panache. The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the social realism which dominated late nineteenth-century…
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