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| Joe Miller : Joe Miller's complete jest book: Being a collection of the most excellent bon mots, brilliant jests, and striking anecdotes, in the English language | |
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Joe Miller
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Joe Miller's complete jest book: Being a collection of the most excellent bon mots, brilliant jests, and striking anecdotes, in the English language |
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Unknown Binding |
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500 |
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1859 |
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B0008AD6R6 |
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H.G. Bohn |
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Product Description
Joe Miller s Jest Book, which, as it is not generally known, may not be unacceptable to the readers of the present volume. He states, that Joe Miller, who has fathered all our jests for the last half century, never uttered a jest in his life. Though aa excellent comic actor, he was the most taciturn and saturnine man breathing. He was in the daily habit of spending his afternoons at the Black Jack, a well-known public-house in Portugal-street, Clare Market, which was at that time frequented by most of the respectable tradesmen in the neighbourhood, who, from Joe simperturbable gravity, whenever any risible saying was recounted, derisively ascribed it to him. After his death, having left his family unprovided for, advantage was taken of this badinage. AM r. Motley, a well known dramatist of that day, was employed to collect all the stray jests, then current on town. Joe Miller sname was prefixed to them, and from that day to this, the man who never uttered a jest has been the reputed author of every jest, past, present, and to come. The original edition of Joe Miller, is the basis of the present publication :and no pains have been His remains were interred on the east side of the Burial ground of St. Clements Danes, in Portugal Street, Clare Market; where a stoue stills marks the spot, and commemorates his virtues.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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