The Humorous Speaker: Being a Choice Collection of Amusing Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse, Original and Selected; Consisting of Dialogues, Soliloquies, Parodies & C. Designed for the Use of Schools, Literary Societies, Debating Clubs, Social Circles and Domestic Entertainment |
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Page ix
... Doctor . Village Greatness . Monsieur Tonson .. The Philosopher's Scales .. .Anon . 270 .Anon . 273 Knickerbocker Magazine 275 .Anon . 276 .Anon . 277 Captain Brown's Speech to the Mackerel Brigade . W. Ray 279 .Anon . 280 Jane Taylor ...
... Doctor . Village Greatness . Monsieur Tonson .. The Philosopher's Scales .. .Anon . 270 .Anon . 273 Knickerbocker Magazine 275 .Anon . 276 .Anon . 277 Captain Brown's Speech to the Mackerel Brigade . W. Ray 279 .Anon . 280 Jane Taylor ...
Page x
... Doctor and his Apprentice .. Death of a Blacksmith . The College Gate .... A Heavy Train ... DIALOGUE - Opposito Natures .. What Mr. Robinson Thinks .. The Wind in a Frolic ... The Road to a Woman's Heart . The Public Grindstone .. The ...
... Doctor and his Apprentice .. Death of a Blacksmith . The College Gate .... A Heavy Train ... DIALOGUE - Opposito Natures .. What Mr. Robinson Thinks .. The Wind in a Frolic ... The Road to a Woman's Heart . The Public Grindstone .. The ...
Page 35
... Doctor , good morning - I wish you a bon repos ! Take a chair , doctor . Pang . Pardon me , my lord ; I am not inclined to be sedentary ; I wish , with permission , " erectos ad sidera tollere vultus . " - Ovid . Hem ! Lord D. Tollory ...
... Doctor , good morning - I wish you a bon repos ! Take a chair , doctor . Pang . Pardon me , my lord ; I am not inclined to be sedentary ; I wish , with permission , " erectos ad sidera tollere vultus . " - Ovid . Hem ! Lord D. Tollory ...
Page 36
... doctor , but you have richly deserved it . I warrant a man doesn't get A double S tack'd to his name for nothing . Pang . Decidedly not , my lord . Yes , I am now artium societatis socius . My two last publications did that business ...
... doctor , but you have richly deserved it . I warrant a man doesn't get A double S tack'd to his name for nothing . Pang . Decidedly not , my lord . Yes , I am now artium societatis socius . My two last publications did that business ...
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... doctor . Pang . The process which we are now upon is to eradicate that blemish in your lordship's language , which the learned denominate cacology , and which the vulgar call slip - slop . Lord D. I'm afraid , doctor , my cakelology ...
... doctor . Pang . The process which we are now upon is to eradicate that blemish in your lordship's language , which the learned denominate cacology , and which the vulgar call slip - slop . Lord D. I'm afraid , doctor , my cakelology ...
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