[Ads-l] Antedating "Here we go again"

[Steven Losie]

HERE WE GO AGAIN
The OED dates this phrase to December 1809. Here is an earlier instance, as
well as an earlier source for the OED's first attestation:

[begin quote]
"Huzza! Here we go, mamma! Here we go, up! up! up! I wish it blew harder!
Here we go again!"
[end quote]
Source: Clarke, Edward Daniel. A Tour Through the South of England, Wales,
and Part of Ireland Made During the Summer of 1791. Minerva Press, London,
1793. p.224. (Google Books)
Link: https://books.google.com/books?id=SE8GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA224

The OED cites the following quote as their first attestation, crediting the
Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer on 9 Dec 1809. The quote apparently originated
a week earlier in Philadelphia's Democratic Press:

[begin quote]
Here we go, again! The Nonintercourse Law, all a Cheat! Well may the
French, the Russians, all the Continental Powers complain of our partiality
and abominable fraud.
[end quote]
Source: Democratic Press (Philadelphia, PA), 30 November 1809, p.2, col.5
(America's Historical Newsbank - Readex / Newsbank)

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