Category: Humour

Anecdotes of the Learned Pig With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and Illustrations from Bozzy, Piozzi &c. &c.

Boswell, James, 1740-1795; Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821· 2 chapters· 4,446 words

The Editor is indebted to mere accident for his acquaintance with the following ſprightly performance; and, as it ſeemed to have been the Author’s intention to have written notes, from ſeveral detached papers having reference to the text, the Editor has taken the liberty to in...

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1. Part 1

The Editor is indebted to mere accident for his acquaintance with the following ſprightly performance; and, as it ſeemed to have been the Author’s intention to have written note...

2. Part 2

[15] Moſt of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domeſtic of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him, perhaps, after the middle of life.—Jo...