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Satire, English - Early works to 1800
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The Garrat election. The possessions and characters of the seven candidates that put up for that great and important office called the Mayor of Garrat the first is Sir Jeffery Dunstan, Sir William Blase Sir Christopher Dashwood, Sir John Harper, Sir William Swallow-tail Sir John Gnaw-post, and Sir Thomas Standcock. ...
Date: 1770?]- Books
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The twelfth and last time this season. At the theatre, Lyceum, in the Strand, this present evening, Monday, Aug. 19, 1799, an attempt will be made at the restoration of plain old English humour sense, and satire, from the peculiar and last production of the celebrated George Alexander Stevens, (never published) being a comic olio, adapted to the times, called a cabinet of fancy, which will be exemplified in an original collection of transparent paintings, sketches, & designs, as they were represented at the Theatre Royal Hay-Market, with universal applause. ...
Lyceum Theatre (Westminster, London, England)Date: [1799]- Books
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The posthumous works of Mr Samuel Butler, (author of Hudibras) compleat in one volume: Written in the Time of the Grand Rebellion, and in the Reign of King Charles II. being a collection of Satires, speeches, and Reflections, upon those Times. Publish'd from original M.SS. and Scarce and Valuable Pieces formerly Printed. To which is added, A key to Hudibras by Sir Roger L'Estrange.
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.Date: 1754- Books
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Covent-Garden: a satire.
Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Books
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Minutes of a conversation, at the Monday Night's Club, held at the Royal Oak, in the village of ---- . Present Mr. Tempest, school-master, in the chair. John Gubbins, Joe Lumkin, Will. Spratt, &c.
Date: 1792?]