| Evidence: | 'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors: "He [Sir Stafford Northcote] is a statesman, the blaze of whose parliamentary escutcheon has never yet been dimmed by the bar-sinister or inconsistency." What do you think of that?' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 22 Sep 1882 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: Ivybridge | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1859 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer and layabout |
| Religion: | Free Church |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | [newspaper] |
| Genre: | newspaper |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 110 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Margaret Oliphant | |
| Editor: | Annie Coghill | |
| Title: | Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant | |
| Place of Publication: | Leicester | |
| Date of Publication: | 1974 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 307 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from F.R. (Cecco) Oliphant to Margaret Oliphant, 22 Sept [1882] |
| Citation: | Margaret Oliphant, Annie Coghill (ed.), Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant (Leicester, 1974), p. 307, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=110, accessed: 30 November 2023 | |
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