http://blog.oup.com/2010/11/codger/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 18:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2010/11/codger/#comment-186144 Stephen Goranson Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:49:36 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=12057#comment-186144 Thanks. A 1750 use of Codger appears in Another fragment. Henry Stebbing 1750 English Book iv, 26, [2] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo) London : Printed for A. Pope, near the Royal Exchange, and sold by all the booksellers in London, Oxford, and Cambridge, p. 9. However, what they dar'd they did; (for it was the greatest Pain in the World to restrain themselves on this Occasion) they accordingly laugh'd very heartily at the old _Codger_, (as they called him) made Faces at him as usual, and were not a little noisy.... (Available in Eighteenth Century Collections Online, for reading in context.) Thanks. A 1750 use of Codger appears in Another fragment. Henry Stebbing
1750 English Book iv, 26, [2] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
London : Printed for A. Pope, near the Royal Exchange, and sold by all the booksellers in London, Oxford, and Cambridge, p. 9.
However, what they dar’d they did; (for it was the greatest Pain in the World to restrain themselves on this Occasion) they accordingly laugh’d very heartily at the old _Codger_, (as they called him) made Faces at him as usual, and were not a little noisy….
(Available in Eighteenth Century Collections Online, for reading in context.)

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