23 examples of maginn in sentences

" It is amusing to note that Maginn, writing the text to accompany the Maclise portrait of Lamb in Fraser's Magazine in 1835, gravely states that Lamb's name was really Lomb, and that he was of Jewish extraction.

Maginn thinks him a Jew, 365.

Maginn, William, 365.

Maginn wrote in Fraser's Magazine: Joe Miller vails his bonnet to Sam Rogers; in all the newspapers, not only of the kingdom but its dependencies,Hindostan, Canada, the West Indies, the Cape, from the tropics,nay, from the Antipodes to the Orkneys, Sam is godfather general to all the bad jokes in existence.

Dr. Maginn [Footnote: Dr. Maginn's papers in Blackwood are or should be known to the reader.

Dr. Maginn [Footnote: Dr. Maginn's papers in Blackwood are or should be known to the reader.

The advice was taken, and Dr. Maginn was brought over from Paris to take charge of the lighter part of the paper at a salary of £700 a year, with a house.

Rev., on Crokers's "Boswell's Johnson," Gladstone's "Church and State," Macirone, Col. Mackay, the actor Mackintosh, Sir James Macleod, John, "Voyage of H.M.S. Alceste to Loochoo" Macready, W.C. Maginn, Dr. Magnus, Samuel, his testimonial to Dean Milman Mahon, Lord (Earl Stanhope)

ANONYMOUS As in the case of the Quarterly these untraced effusions may be assigned, with fair confidence, to the principal originators of the magazine: Wilson himself, Lockhart, and William Maginn (1793-1842), a thriftless Irishman who helped to start Fraser's Magazine in 1830, and stood for Captain Shandon in Pendennis; author of Bob Burke's Duel with Ensign Brady, "perhaps the raciest Irish story ever written.

By William Maginn, Esq.

By William Maginn, Esq.

In the Vision of Purgatory, by Dr. Maginn, (Irish, of course,) the serious and ludicrous are mixed up with an abundance of skill and humour; this piece should be read after the Madhouse sketch.

The width of its range and its catholicity may be estimated by its including William Blake and Dibdin, Bishop King and Dr. Maginn.

And witty Dr. Maginn carries to its extreme the atrocity: "We like to hear a few words of sense from a woman, as we do from a parrot, because they are so unexpected."

Their names were John Wilson, J.G. Lockhart, James Hogg, and, for a time, William Maginn.

THRALL, MIRIAM M. H. Rebellious Fraser's; Nol Yorke's magazine in the days of Maginn, Thackeray, and Carlyle.

THRALL, MIRIAM M. H. Rebellious Fraser's; Nol Yorke's magazine in the days of Maginn, Thackeray, and Carlyle.

Though no names of such outstanding distinction as those of Goldsmith and Sheridan occur in the early decades of the nineteenth century, the spirit of Irish comedy was kept vigorously alive by Maria Edgeworth, William Maginn, Francis Mahony (Father Prout), and William Carleton.

Maginn and Mahony were both scholarsthe latter happily called himself "an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt"wrote largely for English periodicals, and spent most of their lives out of Ireland.

Maginn was a wit, Mahony was the hedge-schoolmaster in excelsis, and Carleton was the first realist in Irish peasant fiction.

MAGINN, WILLIAM, a witty, generous-hearted Irishman, born in Cork; a man of versatile ability, who contributed largely to Blackwood, and became editor of Fraser's Magazine, in the conduct of which latter he gathered round him as contributors a number of the most eminent literary men; the stories and verses he wrote gave signs of something like genius (1793-1842).

Even Maginn, the satirical, thought that the novelist was doing excellent service to history in making Englishmen understand how full of comedy and tragedy were the old streets and the old buildings of London.

After listening to the horrible jargon for some time, I could easily believe the story which poor William Maginn used to tell with such unction, of the origin of the Welsh language.

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