Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 16W. Blackwood., 1824 |
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... John Bull vibrate his horns ad libitum , among the merciful bowels of Mr Zachariah Macaulay : and let the Examiner be great , as of old , in the region of second- rate players , and fifth - rate painters . Let each man buckle his own ...
... John Bull vibrate his horns ad libitum , among the merciful bowels of Mr Zachariah Macaulay : and let the Examiner be great , as of old , in the region of second- rate players , and fifth - rate painters . Let each man buckle his own ...
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... John Falstaff quaffed , than the secret intrigues which brought Charles the First to the scaffold : and , great as is our respect for Mr Langan , there is still another claret which possesses claims upon our sympathies , far , far above ...
... John Falstaff quaffed , than the secret intrigues which brought Charles the First to the scaffold : and , great as is our respect for Mr Langan , there is still another claret which possesses claims upon our sympathies , far , far above ...
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... John , it was enacted , that the wines of Anjou should not be sold for more than twenty - four shill- ings a - tun ; and that the wines of Poitou should not be higher then twenty shillings ; while the other wines of France were limited ...
... John , it was enacted , that the wines of Anjou should not be sold for more than twenty - four shill- ings a - tun ; and that the wines of Poitou should not be higher then twenty shillings ; while the other wines of France were limited ...
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... John Murray does the Quarterly , viz . to puff his own wares , ) yet I ques- tion if in all Ettrick you could buy a pennyworth of any of the " substances miraculeuses pour engrasser les per- sonnes trop maigres , " unless it was in the ...
... John Murray does the Quarterly , viz . to puff his own wares , ) yet I ques- tion if in all Ettrick you could buy a pennyworth of any of the " substances miraculeuses pour engrasser les per- sonnes trop maigres , " unless it was in the ...
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... John Bull Magazine , ON AN ARTICLE IN HIS FIRST NUMBER . 1 . WHO you are , I don't know , Mister T'other John Bull , But your horns seem as sharp as the first's to the full ; If his prick like a rapier , yours tear like a hanger ...
... John Bull Magazine , ON AN ARTICLE IN HIS FIRST NUMBER . 1 . WHO you are , I don't know , Mister T'other John Bull , But your horns seem as sharp as the first's to the full ; If his prick like a rapier , yours tear like a hanger ...
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