Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne): A Biography and BibliographyHarper & Brothers, 1919 - 338 páginas From the Peter Neil Isaacs collection. |
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Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne): A Biography and Bibliography Don Carlos Seitz Vista completa - 1919 |
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne): A Biography and Bibliography Don Carlos Seitz Vista completa - 1919 |
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne): A Biography and Bibliography Don Carlos Seitz Vista completa - 1919 |
Términos y frases comunes
American appeared Artemus Ward audience Baldwinsville Bill Bohemia Boozy woozy Boston Broadway brother Brown called Captain Wright Carleton Carpet Bag Charles F chief Cleveland comic cried dollars Edited editor Egyptian Hall entertainment Farrar father feel George George Augustus Sala hanbils Hingston humor humorist Illustrated Inez Jack Ryder James John Camden Hotten jokes lady laugh lecture Letter from Artemus Levi Brown lived London look Maine March Mark Twain Mormons mother never night note-book November O'Mulligan Ohio once Oxford County paper Piccadilly Plain Dealer Portland printed published replied Ryder sagacious pirate Savage Club showman Silvertoes soon Stephens story Street T. W. Robertson tell Theater things Tiffin told took town Vanity Fair village Ward's Waterford week William Wood Woshy-Boshy write wrote York young
Pasajes populares
Página 314 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Página 116 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 116 - Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.
Página 30 - ... full of conwiviality, & the life an sole of the Soshul Bored. Take. don't you ? If you say anythin abowt my show say my snaiks is as harmliss as the new born Babe. What a interestin study it is to see a zewological animil like a snaik under perfeck subjecshun!
Página 29 - I'm movin along — slowly along — down tords your place. I want you should rite me a letter, sayin how is the show bizniss in your place. My show at present consists of three moral Bares, a Kangaroo (a amoozin little Raskal — t'would make you larf yerself to deth to see the little cuss jump up and squeal) wax figgers of G. Washington Gen. Tayler John Bunyan Capt. Kidd and Dr. Webster in the act of killin Dr.
Página 215 - For the foam-flakes that dance in life's shallows Are wrung from life's deep. He came with a heart full of gladness From the glad-hearted world of the West, Won our laughter, but not with mere madness, Spake and joked with us, not in mere jest: For the man in our heart lingered after.
Página 124 - Africa, ladies and gentlemen, is my subject. You wish me to tell you something about Africa. Africa is on the map — it is on all the maps of Africa that I have ever seen. You may buy a good map for a dollar, and if you study it well, you will know more about Africa than I do.
Página 198 - It was a grand scene, Mr. ARTEMUS WARD standing on the platform, talking; many of the audience sleeping tranquilly in their seats; others leaving the room and not returning; others crying like a child at some of the jokes—all, all formed a most impressive scene, and showed the powers of this remarkable orator. And when he announced that he should never lecture in that town again, the applause was absolutely deafening.
Página 28 - ' (cotashun from Hamlick) sum editers in a sertin town which shall be nameless, who air Both sneakin and ornery. They cum in krowds to my Show and then axt me ten sents a lines...
Página 148 - American humorist, nor does he himself profess to be, but he deserves the credit of combining certain qualities which make him the representative of a kind of humor that has more of a national characteristic than the higher and more artistic standard. His strength does not lie simply in grotesque spelling — that is a mechanical trick suggested by his education as a printer — and those who...