Jest Book
章节目录
共 27 段- A LOVING husband once waited on a physician to request him t
- AN Englishman and a Welshman, disputing in whose country was
- A MEDICAL student under examination, being asked the differe
- MR. JUSTICE P----, a well-meaning but particularly prosing j
- IN King William's time a Mr. Tredenham was taken before the
- A COUNTRYMAN took his seat at a tavern-table opposite to a g
- "DID you not on going down find a _party_ in your kitchen?"
- ON Dr. K----'s promotion to the bishopric of Down, an appoin
- A WATCH lost in a tavern! That's a crime;
- JERROLD said to a very thin man, "Sir, you are like a pin, b
- TWO women scolding each other, one said, "Thou liest like a
- THE Rev. Mr. B----, when residing at Canterbury some years a
- BROWN and Smith were met by an overdressed individual, "Do y
- Powell (as _Lord Stanley_). He is, my Lord, and _safe in Lei
- VERY dry and pithy too was a legal _opinion_ given to a clai
- A PHYSICIAN, much attached to his profession, during his att
- CURIOUS coincidences respecting the letter C, as connected w
- A RICH upstart once asked a poor person if he had any idea o
- SYDNEY SMITH, after Macaulay's return from the East, remarke
- IN a cause tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, the plaintif
- FUSELI had a great dislike to common-place observations. Aft
- A PHRENOLOGIST remarking that some persons had the organ of
- "'Hoc tum sævas paulatim mitigat iras,
- A GENTLEMAN going to take water at Whitehall stairs, cried o
- A GENTLEMAN passing a country church while under repair, obs
- EPIGRAMS:--
- Too Civil by Half, 246