 | Leicester Buckingham - 1844 - 440 pages
...(First and Second Series.) *#* Either Series may be had separately in one volume, price 10s. Gd. " Abundant in humour, observation, fancy ; in extensive...Captain Morris, THE SOCIAL EFFUSIONS OF CAPT. CHARLES MORRIS, of the late Life-Guards. Member of the Beef-steak Club, &c" These volumes contain some exquisite... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Serialized fiction - 1844 - 352 pages
...INGOLDSBY, ESQ. (First and Second Series.) " Either Series may be had separately in one volume, price l0s. 6d. "Abundant in humour, observation, fancy ; in extensive...surface of the Legends, the sensible manly purpo.se I"—Examiner, In 2 Tols. post 8vo., with Portrait of Captain Morris, THE SOCIAL EFFUSIONS OF CAPT.... | |
 | Leicester Buckingham - 1844 - 440 pages
...(First and Second Series.) *** Either Series may be had separately in one volume, price 10s. 6rf. " Abundant in humour, observation, fancy ; in extensive...laughing surface of the Legends, the sensible manly purpose."—Examiner. In 2 vols. post 8we., with Portrait of Captain Morris, THE SOCIAL EFFUSIONS OF... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 652 pages
...New Edition of THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS; OB, MIRTH AND MARVELS. BY THOMAS INGOLDSBY, ESQ. EXAMINEE. " Abundant in humour, observation, fancy ; in extensive...surface of the Legends, the sensible manly purpose." [Published this Day. NEW WORKS NOW READY. In Post 8vo, Is. 6e?., THE BALTIC, THE BLACK SEA, AND THE... | |
 | Antiquarian booksellers - 1857 - 916 pages
...6(/) —Another copy, new hf. calf gilt, £]. 4» 1852 " We cannot open a page of tlic hook that Ь not sparkling with its •wit and humour, that is not ringing with its strokes of pleasantry, satire, tC, — EXAH1.>EH. 535 Snotttutton (The) OF A GEJiTLEMAN,/ao?tm?7e reprint of the extremely... | |
 | Robert Henry Wallace Dunlop - India - 1858 - 240 pages
...even Butler beats the author of these ' Legends' in the easy drollery of verse. We cannot open a page that is not sparkling with its wit and humour —...ringing with its strokes of pleasantry and satire." — Examiner. WILLIAM JAMES. James's Naval History of Great Britain, with a Continuation to the Battle... | |
 | Martin Richard Gubbins - India - 1858 - 544 pages
...Uutler bents the anthor of these • Legends' in the easy drollery of verge. We cnnnot open a page that is not sparkling with its wit and humour —...ringing with its strokes of pleasantry and satire." — Examiner. WILLIAM JAMES. James's Naval History of Great Britain, with a Continuation to the Battle... | |
 | Martin Richard Gubbins - India - 1858 - 572 pages
...even Butler beats the author of these ' Legends ' in the easy drollery of verse. We cannot open a page that is not sparkling with its wit and humour— that...ringing with its strokes of pleasantry and satire." — Examiner. WILLIAM JAKES. James's Naval History of Great Britain^ with a Continuation to the Battle... | |
 | Church and state - 1859 - 492 pages
...und Leech, 3 vols, post 8vo. new clotn, 15»6ri(pub. ¿1. 11» G</) 185$ "We cannot open л рацс of the book that Is not sparkling with Its wit and humour, that is not ringin»,' witu itä strokes uf pleasantry, satire, 511 INKERSLEY'S (T.) Romanesque and Pointed Architec.... | |
 | P.P. - London. - Bentley's Miscellany - 1859 - 300 pages
...these ' Legends ' in the easy drollery of verse. We cannot open a page that is not sparkling with ita wit and humour — that is not ringing with its strokes of pleasantry and satire." — Examiner. RITA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. New Edition. Price Ss. 6d. "The writing in this hook sometimes... | |
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... Abundant in humour, observation, fancy ; in extensive knowledge of books and men ; in palpable hits of character, exquisite, grave, irony, and the most whimsical indulgence in point of epigram. 
