Cox's Fragmenta: An Historical Miscellany
Francis Cox, "Cox's Fragmenta: An Historical Miscellany"
English | ISBN: 0752451715 | 2010 | 160 pages | EPUB | 648 KB
English | ISBN: 0752451715 | 2010 | 160 pages | EPUB | 648 KB
Some of the funniest and most bizarre news stories printed between 1750 and 1830
Erotic misdemeanors in an Irish bean-field, the recipe for a frog barometer fresh from the French court, a parrot convicted of heresy and burnt at the stake in Spain, and a Dutch stage effect for ejecting a wig—by means of a spring—during Hamlet’s ghost scene are just some of the masterpieces of understated journalism collected by Francis Cox and contained in his
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