The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and OdditiesChatto and Windus, 1853 - 428 pagini |
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Pagina 13
... hand and seal ; but the purchaser will have to convey the building . It is a desirable point in this speculation that there will be no tax for paving or lighting , there being no charge made by the Trustees of the Milky Way , nor is ...
... hand and seal ; but the purchaser will have to convey the building . It is a desirable point in this speculation that there will be no tax for paving or lighting , there being no charge made by the Trustees of the Milky Way , nor is ...
Pagina 14
... hand ; and , if you have a live pig , it will be better to go the whole hog and get rid of it at once , for the sale becomes doubt- ful as the summer advances . PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS . MR . DOUBLETHRUST , who had long occupied the ...
... hand ; and , if you have a live pig , it will be better to go the whole hog and get rid of it at once , for the sale becomes doubt- ful as the summer advances . PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS . MR . DOUBLETHRUST , who had long occupied the ...
Pagina 20
... hands that have been laid upon him . Macbeth and the Witches are so beautifully confused that it is difficult to say which is Macbeth and which the Witches . There is the murder of Duncan , with his two sons in the distance , looking on ...
... hands that have been laid upon him . Macbeth and the Witches are so beautifully confused that it is difficult to say which is Macbeth and which the Witches . There is the murder of Duncan , with his two sons in the distance , looking on ...
Pagina 22
... hand — an instrument found so useful in cases of accident on natural ice , or it is probable that the individual might have been fished up with the greatest facility . The gentleman was now immersed in mortar , and , hang- ing on by a ...
... hand — an instrument found so useful in cases of accident on natural ice , or it is probable that the individual might have been fished up with the greatest facility . The gentleman was now immersed in mortar , and , hang- ing on by a ...
Pagina 28
... hand was at length guided by a mandarin , who had partaken less freely of the grog than the Chief Commissioner . Key - sing then left for his own abode , singing and dancing all the way home , and addressing every one he met , to whom ...
... hand was at length guided by a mandarin , who had partaken less freely of the grog than the Chief Commissioner . Key - sing then left for his own abode , singing and dancing all the way home , and addressing every one he met , to whom ...
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Acrostics amusement Artemus Ward asked beautiful Bedouin better bill boys British BUGGINS Bull called Captain cloth COMIC ALMANACK Crown 8vo dancing dear dinner door dress Edition England English eyes Fcap French friends gentleman George GEORGE CRUIKSHANK gilt give glass Goffoni gold grand Green Gretna Green hand head heard honour husband Illustrations John Bull John Camden Hotten Julius Cæsar Koh-i-Noor laugh leave legs London look Lord Madame Tussaud's mind month morning mother never night Opera pantomime paper Parliament party penny Phlaruppe Piccadilly Polka poor quadrille Queen railway Ramsgate round servants shilling Signor sing smashed Stag Street sure taken tell Theatre thee there's thing thou thought throw tion turn Vauxhall Waterloo Bridge wear Welsh Rabbit whilst wife wine Young England young lady
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Pagina 96 - That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish; and, indeed, my lord, The wretched animal heaved forth such groans, That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting; and the big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase...
Pagina 432 - Puniana: Thoughts Wise and Otherwise. By the Hon. HUGH ROWLEY. Best Book of Riddles and Puns ever formed. With nearly 100 exquisitely Fanciful Drawings. Contains nearly 3000 of the best Riddles, and 10,000 most outrageous Puns, and is one of the most Popular Books ever issued. New Edition, small quarto, uniform with the
Pagina 429 - Anecdotes seem to have poured in upon the author from all quarters. . . Turn where we will through these 370 pleasant pages, something worth reading is sure to meet the eye." — The Standard. Also Published : THE "BEST EDITION" of the above Work, illustrated by Photographic Frontispiece of " Dickens as Captain Bobadil,
Pagina 437 - This edition deserves SPECIAL ATTENTION, from the fact that it is the only correct one that has 'been, printed since the time of Defoe. By the kindness of Mr. Lee a copy of the rare and valuable original, in...
Pagina 440 - BEAUTIFUL AND CAPTIVATING VOLUME. The well-known Paris house, Firmin Didot, a few years since produced a...