you're killing me P!! keep it up
KS
On 07/02/07, Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Does it have the world famous 'Cement and Water'and joodles poodles poems
> P out of copyright P
> Hey sounds useful of course plenty of my early work there from the viking
> sagas onwards
> P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robin Hamilton
> Sent: 04 February 2007 17:18
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Free Books
>
> There is an unexpected side-benefit of the google Books search engine --
>
> http://books.google.com/bkshp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wp&q=
>
> ... when it comes to out-of-copyright texts. These are often downloadable
> complete in pdf format.
>
> I discovered this when I managed to obtain the Newgate Calendar, published
> in 1826, containing an account of the life (pages 304-328) of the saintly
> David Haggard, martyred in Edinburgh in 1821, the third edition of whose
> autobiography I am in the process of preparing for print.
>
>
> It's a bit hit and miss, but the thing to look out for is the notation "Full
>
> view" in the last line of an entry.
>
> Connoisseurs of the science of phrenology may be interested in the results
> of a search in this form:
>
> "blackwood's edinburgh magazine" coombe
>
> ... in which the mercenary hirelings of Christopher North make mock of the
> interview between George Coombe and David Haggart (published as an appendix
> to the first two editions of Haggart's Life but, for some strange reason,
> removed from the third edition) in a cell in the Edinburgh Tolbooth shortly
> before Sinfu' Davey was judicially murdered.
>
> Quite unfairly, the contributors to Noctes Ambrosiana (including, one is
> sorry to have to admit, even the admirable Dr. William Maginn, who nearly
> did the world a favour by killing the execrable Grantley Berkeley in a duel,
>
> failing only due to his unfamiliarity with muzzle-loading pistols, one of
> which he had to borrow from his antagonist for the purposes of their
> encounter) see the Noble Science as simply an excuse to allow middle aged
> men to fondle young ladies' heads.
>
> As if!!!
>
> Rodentus pedanticus
>
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