In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as John Milton's example. "Commonplace book" is at times used with an...
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Look up commonplace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Commonplace may refer to: Commonplace book Literary topos, the concept in rhetoric based on "commonplaces"...
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Richard Hill's Commonplace Book, or Oxford, Balliol College MS 354, is a manuscript collection of late-medieval English poems and other miscellaneous items...
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also used in the tradition of the commonplace book and note-taking. A well known example is Isaac Newton's Waste Book in which he did much of the development...
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Pessoa's astute melancholy. What is this Livro do Desassossego? Neither 'commonplace book', nor 'sketchbook', nor 'florilegium' will do. Imagine a fusion of...
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A zibaldone (plural zibaldoni) is an Italian vernacular commonplace book or notebook containing a wide variety of vernacular texts, copied into a small...
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Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783–1785 is the first of three commonplace books that were produced by the poet. The contents cover drafts of songs and...
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(January 16, 2014). "やおい穴イベント(後編)" [Yaoi Hole Event (Part 2)]. 備忘録(白峰彩子) [Commonplace Book: Ayako Shiramine] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on December...
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The Book of Magical Charms, is a handwritten occult commonplace book composed in England in the seventeenth century and currently in the holdings of the...
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