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The WORLD. No. IX

... about the Celebration of Eafter} and no wile Man w ill tell me that it is not reafonable to fall out tor the Obfervance April-Fool-Day. Can any Benefits arifing from regulated Calendar make Amends for an Occafion of new Stfts? How many warm Men may relent ...

Published: Tuesday 01 May 1753
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1491 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LOVE. (From Hood's IVhims and Oddities.) O Love ! what art thou, I.ove the ace of hearts. Trumping earth's kings

... thing, Making green misses spoil their work school; A melancholy man, cross gartering (irave rii>e-fac'd wisdom made an April fool youngster, tilting at a wedding ring A sinner, sitting on cuttie stool A Ferdinand Something in a hovel, Helping Matilda ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1827
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 276 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Domestic Intelligence

... altogether well chosen, and might suggest the wits England bestow upon the association missionaries, the fascinating title of April Fools some singular fatality, General Clooney' happened to be association chairman when this embassy extraordinary was proposed ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1828
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4830 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Local Intelligence

... since resumed their journey. The coachman and guard were slightly wounded. Arm i. Fools—One of those jokes, termed making April fool, was practised with considerable success upon a number of retail brewers of this town on Thursday evening last, at the ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1830
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9172 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ALL FOOL'S DAY

... earth! Its sedIs have all perished in the schools! I pronounce the LL.D.'s, F.R.S.'s and X.G.'s, And tle unreformed K.P.'s April fools! What are Wellington's that shine 11l liredictioss of a storm ? M'hat are Wynfords wheen they whine O'er the Chancery rcform ...

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... did on tie hinst of' Api i, when at rogui Chitrapside' told him that his shoe string wa4 Untiedi orer to)Isiahse hit clli April fool, has been ill a grefit pasiliwih dile calrlea- turi, and ordered Ihun to hr proscted SC) Yesterday n;v, friend Philili'oi ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1831
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1585 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LITERATURE AND NEWSPAPER CHAT

... you April Fool r Tule Lords aire growving wise; they write t00cr surprise, C Tue gravest tragedies, ats lifmuroarus ats Poole ; ii 'Their geniussoars so high, front them ittett Shskspeare fly, q Atid Mlilton's all siy eye~-Ohi, you April Fool!I a Sotme ...

Literature

... always good, this month more than ordinary claims to approbation. It opens with a most amusing article under the title of “* April Fools,” which consista of a series of letters between parties who have been brought into correspondence by means of matrimonial ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1835
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... Scenes in the Life of a Gambier, and last, but not least, Father FIlut's play- ful song, Les Poissons di'Avril, or April Fools, which will be read and quoted by every body. 'Ihus, for half- a-crown, we have in the present number of this comic periodical ...

Literature

... of Scotland is ihe subj.ct of a clever paper; and there are several articles in light reading, »■ a' ' Cantab's Notions April Fools, May-day. and other SentimentaU. Notices the Naval Novelists ; •* Our Club Paris, and the Yellow Plush Correspondence ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1838
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 567 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Ju*t published, MEMOIRS OF /LATE REV. W ILLI AM NUNN. MiAsferof St. Clement'. Manchester. lOs ftl. the Rev. ..

... Margins ltor,ks— AnecCifl*' Madeira. Cooke in Shylock—Old By Howitt— Right Search. To LordJUhburton— d'Avril; or. tbe French April-fool fay— The City of the Dead. A Continuation of O'Dor.o/hue's Fountain—lllustrations of Mirabeau, and of the First Three ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1842
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 420 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE MANCHESTER AND SALFORD ADVERTISER AND CHRONICLE

... closely suited to the day. It is a legislative hoax, attempted to be played off an the Irish people, who have been made April fools of too often to be token in on this occasion. Like all well got-up hoaxes, however, it is of serious aspect. It professes ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1844
Newspaper: Manchester & Salford Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2058 | Page: 5 | Tags: none