 | Leicester Buckingham - 1844 - 440 pages
...and men ; in palpable hits of character, exquisite grave irony, and the most whimsical indulgences of point and epigram ; we doubt if even Butler beats...the easy drollery of verse. We cannot open a page of the book that is not sparkling with its wit and humour, that is not ringing with its strokes of... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Serialized fiction - 1844 - 352 pages
...ESQ. (First and Second Series.) " Either Series may be had separately in one volume, price l0s. 6d. "Abundant in humour, observation, fancy ; in extensive...character, exquisite grave irony, and the most whimsical indulgences of point and epigram; we doubt if even Butler beats the author of these legends in the... | |
 | 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...character, exquisite grave irony, and the most whimsical indulgences of point and epigram ; we doubt if even Butler beats the author of these legends in the... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 pages
...(First and Second Series.) *$* Either Series may be had separately in one volume, price 10s. 6d. " Abundant in humour, observation, fancy ; in extensive...character, exquisite grave irony, and the most whimsical indulgences of point and epigram ; we doubt if even Butler beats the author of these legends in the... | |
 | 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...character, exquisite grave irony, and the most whimsical indulgences of point and epigram ; we doubt if even Butler beats the author of these Legends in the... | |
 | Martin Richard Gubbins - India - 1858 - 544 pages
...Shilling Edition contains the whole of the Legends, the Life of Thomas Ingoldsby alone being omitted. "Abundant in humour, observation, fancy ; in extensive knowledge of books and men; in palpable hints of characters, exquisitive grave irony, ami the most whimsical indulgences of point and epigram... | |
 | Robert Henry Wallace Dunlop - India - 1858 - 240 pages
...Shilling Edition contains the whole of the Legends, the Life of Thomas Ingoldsby alone being omitted. "Abundant in humour, observation, fancy ; in extensive knowledge of books and men; in palpable hints of characters, exquisitive grave irony, and the most whimsical indulgences of point and epigram... | |
 | Martin Richard Gubbins - India - 1858 - 572 pages
...Shilling Edition contains the whole of the Legends, the Life of Thomas Ingoldsby alone being omitted. "Abundant in humour, observation, fancy ; in extensive knowledge of books and men ; in palpable hints of characters, exquisitive grave irony, and the most whimsical indulgences of point and epigram... | |
 | P.P. - London. - Bentley's Miscellany - 1859 - 300 pages
...Shilling Edition contains the whole of the Legends, the Life of Thomas Ingoldsby alone being omitted. "Abundant in humour, observation, fancy; in extensive knowledge of books and men ; in palpable hints of characters, exquisitive grave irony, and the most whimsical indulgences of point and epigram... | |
 | Annie French Hector - 1865 - 266 pages
...designed by LEIGHTON. Printed on Toned Paper, 20s. Sixth Thousand. 1 vol. Crown 4to. cloth. 21s. " Abundant in humour, observation, fancy; in extensive...legends in the easy drollery of verse. We cannot open a pane that is not sparkling with its wit and humour, that is not ringing with its strokes of pleasantry... | |
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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. We cannot open a page that is not sparkling with its wit and... 
