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Smith of Smiths
Being the Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith
Häftad, 2009
267 kr
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Queen Victoria was amused! It may seem unlikely but the preface to this famous biography is given over to quotes from his contemporaries. Not all the quotes are favourable but the roll-call is dazzling: Byron, Macaulay, Walter Scott, George III and IV, Disraeli, Sheridan, Dickens etc. Queen …
Lives of the Wits
Häftad, 2009
251 kr
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'No pecuniary embarrassments equal to the embarrassments of a professed wit; an eternal demand upon him for pleasantry, and a consciousness on his part of a limited income of the facetious; the disappointment of his creditors - the importunity of duns - the tricks, forgeries and false coin he is …
