10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DROLLERIES»
Discover the use of
drolleries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
drolleries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Yankee
Drolleries: The Most Celebrated Works of the Best ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Artemus Ward, Seba Smith, 2012
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Westminster
Drolleries: Both Parts, of 1671, 1672; Being a ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, 2013
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Curiosities of street literature: comprising 'cocks' or ...
DROLLERIES,. SQUIBS,. HISTORIES,. COMIC. TALES. IN. PROSE. AND.
VERSE. " COCKS — fictitious narratives, in verse or prose, of murders, fires, ami
terrible accidents, sold in the streets as true accounts The man who hawks them,
...
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American
Drolleries: Selected Stories
In these stories Mark Twain takes us from the sleepy banks of the Mississippi, through frontier towns and across the deserted gold plains of California.
Nonsense Drolleries by Edward Lear
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The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism:
Drolleries. A peculiar feature of late Illuminated Manuscripts, though more often
found in secular than biblical documents. A drollery, in this context, was a
fantastic creature, often drawn in the margins of a manuscript. Below: Two
drolleries from ...
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Westminster
Drolleries, Both Parts, of 1671, 1672; Being a ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, 2012
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Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric
Smith claims that the audience for the drolleries included not only young,
university-educated gallants and out-of-power courtiers, but also "those who
were not regularly accepted into the inner circles of the court but yet considered
themselves ...
Contains nineteenth-century transcriptions of Hicks' drolleries, as well as transcriptions of other drolleries.
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Army and Navy
Drolleries, with Alphabetical Descriptions [in ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Thomas Strong Seccombe, 2011
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DROLLERIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
drolleries is used in the context of the following news items.
The Importance Of Being Earnest review by QUENTIN LETTS
With some handsome sets and Wilde's drolleries perfectly projected, this is a peachy Earnest. Who can tire of a play with such lines as 'the ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Secondhand Emotion
They also used inhabited and historiated initials, which could be decorative or actually partake of the subject; and drolleries, thumbnail images ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Jun 15»
Uber is overwhelming – London black cabs' only future is tourism …
Both men also achieved high repute, as you know, for their exquisite drolleries. “I may be drunk,” Winston famously told a reproving Bessie ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
Michael Gove's jargon makes Quentin Letts want to howl at the Moon
Salted drolleries are not her forte. Her repertoire relies on cliche and manufactured reasonableness, all couched in the sort of language used ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
Listen Up Philip review – self-conscious antiheroism
Writer/director Alex Ross Perry's self-consciously wordy third feature (after Impolex and The Color Wheel) is overburdened with such drolleries, ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
After 500 years, Catalonia's haggadahs come home
... leaves cascading along the borders of the page, sketches in the margins and grotesques (now called drolleries). The haggadahs on show in ... «The Times of Israel, Mar 15»
Review: Cirque Berserk at Birmingham Repertory Theatre
... a pair who crack the stage with whiplash effect as they swing the Argentinian bolas and the drolleries of Tweedy the clown and you have an ... «Birmingham Post, Mar 15»
Alexander Brott was a composer to contend with
... written for the French conductor Pierre Monteux, and drolleries like Critic's Corner, a set of variations possibly based on individuals. «Montreal Gazette, Mar 15»
Off Broadway Review: 'Placebo' with Carrie Coon
... funny language, and their exchanges of non-sequiturs sound more like mating calls than the intellectual drolleries she shares with Jonathan. «Variety, Mar 15»
Exotic helpings go cold
But the actors are so skilled they just about make this unnecessary sequel fly, dispensing self- deprecating drolleries that will make fans of the ... «The West Australian, Feb 15»
