Nobody ever knew what this meant ; but the green and red dragon so amused the people, that the doctor lived very comfortably upon them. About the same time there was pasted a very hard word upon every corner of the streets. This, to the best of my remembrance,... The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq - Page 184by Sir Richard Steele - 1754Full view - About this book
| William King - English wit and humor - 1776 - 324 pages
...Head, " John Cafe n lives, tho' Saffold's ° dead. * This hard word drew great (hoals of fpeflators about it ; who read the bill, that it introduced, with an unfpeakable curiolity ; and, when they were fick, would have none but this learned man for their Phyfician. Sec... | |
| 1785 - 698 pages
...itreets. This, to the beft of ray remembrance, was TETRACHYMACOGON, which drew great (hoals of fpecbtors about it, who read the bill, that it introduced, with...would have no body but this learned man for their Pbylician. I ones received an adverlifement of one who had Ihidied thirty years by candle-light for... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 638 pages
...the same tune thrrc was pasted a very hard word upon ciery corner of the .streets. This, to the best of my remembrance, 'was TETRACHYMAGOGON, which drew...about it, who read the bill that it introduced with unspeakable curiosity; nnd, when they were sick, would have nobody but this learned man for their physician.... | |
| British essayists - 1803 - 306 pages
...hard word upon every corner of the streets. This, to .the best of my remembrance, was TKTRACHYMAGOGON, which drew great shoals of spectators about it, who read the bill that it introduced with unspeakable 1 once received an advertisement of one " who had studied thirty years by candle-light... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...of the streets. This, to the best of my remembrance, was TETRACHYMAGOGON, • i • *••'•**,« which drew great shoals of spectators about it, who read the bill that it introduced with unspeakable curiosity; and when they were sick, would have nobody but this learned man for their physician.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...hard word upon every corner of the streets. This, to the best of my remembrance, was TETEACHYMAGOGON, which drew great shoals of spectators about it, who read the bill that it introduced with unspeakable curiosity ; and when they were sick, would have nobody but this learned man for their physician.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 446 pages
...the same time there was pasted a very hard word upon every corner of the streets. This, to the best of my remembrance, was TETRACHYMAGOGON, which drew great shoals of spectators about it, who re-id the bill that it introduced with unspeakable curiosity ; and when they were sick, would have... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 628 pages
...the same time there was pasted a very hard word upon every corner of the streets; This, to the best of my remembrance, was TETRACHYMAGOGON, which drew...about it, who read the bill that it introduced with unspeakable curiosity ; and when they were sick, would have nobody but this learned man for their physician.... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 pages
...the same time there was pasted a very hard word upon every corner of the streets. This, to the best of my remembrance, was TETRACHYMAGOGON, which drew...about it, who read the bill that it introduced with unspeakable curiosity ; and when they were sick, would have nobody but this learned man for their physician.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...hard word npon every corner of the streets. This, to the best of my remembrance, was TETRACHtMAGOGON, which drew great shoals of spectators about it, who read the bill that it introduced with unspeakah-lc curiosity ; and when they were sick, would have nobody but this learned man for their... | |
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