MilledulciaBoD – Books on Demand, 2023 M10 12 - 432 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. |
Contents
CONTENTS | 1 |
L | 10 |
Talfourd 94 | 21 |
Lady Epigram on a Painted 91 | 22 |
Addison and Swift 275 | 26 |
Life Epigram on 141 | 29 |
Pantaloons 266 | 33 |
Alliteration 252 | 34 |
Old Costume | 266 |
Wig | 267 |
Coleridge on Defoe | 277 |
Shakspeares Bedside | 279 |
Phonetic Spelling | 284 |
Hip hip hurrah 10 | 285 |
Apuleius on Mesmerism 351 | 288 |
Flowers and Plants 134 | 294 |
Thames Ferry a Century and a Quarter ago 63 | 36 |
Pasquinades 349 | 46 |
Thunder | 100 |
Titles Odd 212 | 106 |
Elizabeth and Sir P Sidney 377 | 123 |
Americanisms | 126 |
Amontillado Sherry 311 | 140 |
Children Crying at their Birth | 142 |
Philological Notes | 149 |
He that fights c | 163 |
Epitaph Puzzling | 166 |
Rappings Spiritual 363 | 179 |
Epitaph on Charles Lamb | 182 |
Hermits 118 | 189 |
Rose Lines on the 133 | 194 |
Antiquity of the Polka | 208 |
Touchstones Dial 31 | 209 |
Odd Titles | 212 |
False Spellings arising from Sound 289 | 215 |
Wagers 394 | 229 |
Life and Death | 232 |
Welsh Weddings 17 | 241 |
First English Envoy to Russia | 250 |
Sack 35 | 252 |
Cloaks | 262 |
Corpulence a Crime | 301 |
Forlorn Hope 228 | 308 |
C | 310 |
Shakspeares Plays 183 | 312 |
PicNic 184 | 314 |
Cowper William | 318 |
Galloshes 104 | 319 |
Plants and Flowers 134 | 320 |
Epitaphiana 238 | 322 |
Pope Gossiping Story of 91 | 331 |
Travelling of Old in England 51 | 351 |
Hogarth Print from an Engraving by 127 | 352 |
Cæsars Wife should be above Suspicion | 353 |
Hope 378 | 360 |
PraeRaffaelism 120 | 361 |
Deaths Painter | 364 |
Lifting Experiment | 370 |
Calcutta Bookselling in 217 | 373 |
HourGlasses in Pulpits 327 | 374 |
Sidney Sir P and Queen Elizabeth | 377 |
M | 382 |
Print from an Engraving by Hogarth 127 | 392 |
Defoe Thames Ferry a Century and a Quarter Ago | 396 |
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