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" The utility of a Provincial Glossary to all persons desirous of understanding our ancient Poets is so universally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of supererogation. Grose and Pegge are constantly referred to in... "
Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review - Page 26
1790
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A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular ...

Francis Grose - 1787 - 380 pages
...ASTOK, L«NOX AND TU-Dh.N FOUNDATIONS It 1987 JPREFACE. o t/p T. HE utility of a Provincial Gloffary to all perfons defirous of underflanding our ancient...enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of fupererogation. Divers partial collections have been occauonally made, all which have been well received,...
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A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular ...

Francis Grose - 1787 - 378 pages
...HOLBORN, oppofile PREFACE. T. HE utility of a Provincial Gloflary to all perfons defirous of underftanding our ancient poets, is fo univerfally acknowledged,...enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of fupererogation. Divers partial colle&ions have been occafionally made, all which have been well received,...
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A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular ...

Francis Grose - 1790 - 412 pages
...utility of a Provincial Gloflary, to all perfons defirous of underftanding our ancient poets, is fb univerfally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of fupererogation. Divers partial collecViont have been occafionally made, all which have been well received,...
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A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular ...

Francis Grose - 1811 - 332 pages
...a PROVINCIAL GLOSSARY to all persons desireus of understanding our ancient poets, is so universally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of supererogation. Divers partial collections have been occasionally made, all which have been well received,...
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 538 pages
...a Provincial Glossary to all persons desirous of understanding our ancient poets, is so universally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of supererogation. Pegge's Supplement contains 1000 additional words. Grose and Pegge are continually...
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A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published: Towards ...

John Russell Smith - 1839 - 58 pages
...a Provincial Glossary to all persons desirous of understanding our ancient poets is so universally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of supererogation. Grose and Pegge are constantly referred to in Todd's " Johnson's Dictionary." •pXMOOR...
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An Exmoor Scolding: In the Propriety and Decency of Exmoor Language, Between ...

Peter Lock (of North-Moulton.) - 1839 - 88 pages
...a Provincial Glossary to all persons desirous of understanding our ancient poets, is so universally acknowledged that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of supererogation. A Poem written in the ESSEX DIALECT, by CHARLES CLARK, Esq. of Great Totham Hall, Essex,...
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A Glossary of Provincial and Local Words Used in England, Volume 1

Francis Grose, Samuel Pegge - 1839 - 262 pages
...a PROVINCIAL GLOSSARY to all persona desirous of understanding our ancient poets, is so universally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of supererogation. Divers partial collections have been occasionally made, all which have been well received,...
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The merry tales of the wise men of Gotham [by A.B.] ed. by J.O. Halliwell

A. B - 1840 - 52 pages
...a Provincial Glossary to all persons desirous of understanding our ancient poets is so universally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of supererogation. Grose and Pegge are cnoetantly referred to in Todd's " Johnson's Dictionary." EXMOOR...
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Torrent of Portugal: An English Metrical Romance. Now First Published from ...

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1842 - 168 pages
...a Provincial Glossary to all persons desirous of understanding our ancient poets is so universally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of supererogation. Grose and Pegge are cnoetantly referred to in Todd's " Johnson's Dictionary." EXMOOR...
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