Brallaghan: Or The DeipnosophistsE. Churton, 1845 - 336 pages |
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... writes , that that witty rattle Jack Boyle - or as he was cault , the Admirable Crikton of Cork - started that most Mileeshin of all pariodicalls , the Cork Freeholder . Every one who has been so happy as to peruse the pages of that ...
... writes , that that witty rattle Jack Boyle - or as he was cault , the Admirable Crikton of Cork - started that most Mileeshin of all pariodicalls , the Cork Freeholder . Every one who has been so happy as to peruse the pages of that ...
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... writes in it , or maybe the Times whin I gives a ladin ' artikl to Misther Delane ( he's an Irishman , and I has a likin for ' em all , and does whatever I can to sarve the poor fellas whin they comes to London ) ; and the haughty motto ...
... writes in it , or maybe the Times whin I gives a ladin ' artikl to Misther Delane ( he's an Irishman , and I has a likin for ' em all , and does whatever I can to sarve the poor fellas whin they comes to London ) ; and the haughty motto ...
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... write ? -I'm often afeard I'm pickin up the vulgarisms of them cockneys ! ) apartment ; if it had been smaller it wouldn't have been too confined for the society , consistin as it did of all little men . Nobody would dhrame of exhibitin ...
... write ? -I'm often afeard I'm pickin up the vulgarisms of them cockneys ! ) apartment ; if it had been smaller it wouldn't have been too confined for the society , consistin as it did of all little men . Nobody would dhrame of exhibitin ...
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... write the spirrit's name , or fayrie's name which you call , three times on every sticke , being made flatte on one side . Then bury them under some hille where you suppose fayries haunt , the Wednesday before you call her ; and the ...
... write the spirrit's name , or fayrie's name which you call , three times on every sticke , being made flatte on one side . Then bury them under some hille where you suppose fayries haunt , the Wednesday before you call her ; and the ...
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... writer ; COUNSELLOR LINDSAY , and DICK SAINTHILL , famous for makin ' an Olla Podrida of the most excellint kind , and for Claret worthy of the suppers of the luxuri- ous Duke of Orleans the Ragent of France . Then there was that ...
... writer ; COUNSELLOR LINDSAY , and DICK SAINTHILL , famous for makin ' an Olla Podrida of the most excellint kind , and for Claret worthy of the suppers of the luxuri- ous Duke of Orleans the Ragent of France . Then there was that ...
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Page 329 - Thus sung they in the English boat, A holy and a cheerful Note, And all the way, to guide their Chime, With falling Oars they kept the time.
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