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English literature - Early works to 1800
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Analects in verse and prose, chiefly dramatical, satirical, and pastoral. ...
Carey, George Saville, 1743-1807.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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The remains of Mr. Tho. Brown, serious and comical, in prose and verse. In one volume. Collected from scarce papers and original mss. which makes his works compleat. With Mr. Brown's legacy for the ladies, or characters of the women of the age. To which is prefix'd, a key to all his prophesies, dialogues, satyrs, fables, poems and letters.
Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.Date: 1720- Books
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All the histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn, entire in one volume. Viz. I. The history of Oroonoko, or the royal slave. Written by the command of King Charles the Second. II. The fair jilt, or Prince Tarquin. III. Agnes de Castro, or the force of generous love. IV. The lovers watch, or the art of making love; being rules for courtship for every hour of the day and night. V. The ladies looking-glass to dress themselves by, or the whole art of charming all mankind. VI. The lucky mistake. VII. Memoirs of the court of the King of Bantam. VIII. The nun, or the perjured beauty. IX. The adventure of the black lady. These three last never before published. Together with the history of the life and memoirs of Mrs. Behn. Never before printed. By one of the fair sex. Intermix'd with pleasant love-letters that pass'd betwixt her and Minheer Van Bruin, a Dutch merchant; with her character of the country and lover: and her love-letters to a gentleman in England.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.Date: [1700]- Books
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The fourth volume of the works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious, moral, comical, and satyrical. Consisting of Poems on several Occasions. Laconics; or, new Maxims of State and Conversation. The Praise of the Bottle. A Match for the Devil, a Poem. An Essay on Women. The Charms of the Bottle, a Friend to the Ladies. A new Million-Adventure, invented for Ladies that want Husbands, and younger Brothers that want Wives. Commendatory Verses on the Author of the two Arthurs. Collected by Mr. Brown. With a compleat Collection of Mr. Brown's Dialogues. Viz. Poet Bayes's Conversion, in two Parts. Joe Haynes's Conversion and Reconversion. The Welch Levite toss'd in a Blanket. The Reasons of the new Converts taking the Oaths to the Government. Reflexions on Julian Johnson's Argument, and the Pastoral Letter, &c. And Mr. Brown's Translation of the best Odes out of Horace.
Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.Date: 1709- Books
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A Complete picture of human life: or, Variety of food for the mind. Consisting of valuable matter, calculated for the pleasure and instruction of readers of every class; and including a collection of genuine and entertaining narrations, tales, stories, anecdotes, essays, historiess, adventures, relations, memoirs, lives, morals, poems, strange occurrences, singular providences, remarkable characters, melancholy transactions, admirable deliverances, wonderful events, &c. Among which,besides those articles selected from approved authors, are interspersed many original pieces, never before published.
Date: [1795?]