Author: Thomas Egerton (Bookseller)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A Catalogue of a General Collection of Books
Author: Thomas Egerton (Bookseller)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Intoxerated
Author: Paul DicksonPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612191444
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A smart, hilarious, and lavishly illustrated guide to the most euphemised word in the English language: Drunk A record-breaking assemblage of 2,964 different ways to say "drunk." Tipsy, roasted, three sheets, whazooed and Boris Yeltsinned are just the beginning....With an introduction by the wise-guy lexicographer himself, Paul Dickson, and illustrations by renowned artist Brian Rea. Dickson, who holds the Guiness World Record for collecting the most words for being, er, not sober, not only provides a dictionary of those words, but reveals why there are so many synonyms for being "drunk," and how he came to collect more of them than anyone else. The terms are annotated, too, and lushly illustrated, explaining the twist and turns of a language that has thousands of ways to say the same thing. How, for example, does a word like "blotto" go from the lips of P.G. Wodehouse, into the writings of Edmund Wilson, before landing with Otto from The Simpson's ("My name is Otto, I like to get blotto").
The Athenaeum
Author: A Catalogue of a General Collection of Books, in Every Branch of Useful and Ornamental Literature, Including Several Libraries Recently Purchased, Particularly Those of the Late Rev. John Parkhurst
Author: Thomas EgertonPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385738092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T061375 [London], 1798. iv,392p.; 8°
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Lumley's Bibliographical Advertiser
Author: The Examiner
Author: Michigan Christian Advocate
Author: The Athenæum
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.