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Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs.
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Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past supernaturally deficient in originality rapped out theirs.
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Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.
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His connection with Newbery the bookseller now led him into a variety of temporary jobs, such as a pamphlet on the Cock-lane
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Not a Cock-lane scratch, my son — not one bounce on the drum of Tedworth — not so much as the poor tick of a solitary death-watch in the wainscot.
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He expressed great indignation at the imposture of the Cock-lane
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Cock-lane, which, in the year 1762, had gained very general credit in London.
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There were, likewise, in the collection several interesting relics of humorous felony; such as the snuff-box of the Cock-lane ghost -- the stone thrown by Collins at William the Fourth's head -- a copy of Sir Francis
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various
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Churchill, in his poem entitled The Ghost, availed himself of the absurd credulity imputed to Johnson, and drew a caricature of him under the name of 'POMPOSO [2],' representing him as one of the believers of the story of a Ghost in Cock-lane, which, in the year 1762, had gained very general credit in London [3].
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Yet he seriously discussed the truth of second-sight; he carefully investigated the Cock-lane ghost -- a goblin who anticipated some of the modern phenomena of so-called
Samuel Johnson Leslie Stephen 1868
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