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English wit and humor - 18th century
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The compleat universal jester: or, Pocket companion for the wits. Being a choice collection of merry conceits, facetious droileries, humorous waggeries, smart repartees, pleasant jokes, bon mots, comic stories, notable puns, witty quibbles, and ridiculous bulls. To which are added, a great number of out-o'th'-way conundrums, diverting rebusses, poignant epigrams, odd and uncommon epitaphs, &c. &c. The whole calculated to divert and promote inoffensive mirth, and good company. Containing more in number, and greater variety, than any book of the kind yet published. By Ferdinando Killigrew, Esq; the world's a jest.
Killigrew, Ferdinando.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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The story teller's magazine, or, A library of laughter. Being a general repository of humour, wit, and entertainment. Consisting of Remarkable tales, Extraordinary adventures, Entertaining histories, Pathetic eastern stories, Ingenious bon mots, Facetious jests, Poignant repartees, Celebrated songs. And every other species of humour, wit, instruction, and entertainment. Calculated to exhilarate the spirits, to amend the heart, and to improve the understanding. By a Society of Jolly Fellows, who delight in Mirth, but detest all manner of obscenity. Vol. I.
Society of Jolly Fellows.Date: [1778?]- Books
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Dr. Anthony's nocturnal ramble, with comical and moral remarks on a Lew'd house. ...
Anthony, Doctor.Date: 1726]- Books
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The comical fellow; Or, Wit and humour for town and country; containing the newest, drollest, laughable collection of pleasant adventures, wholesome stories, humourous sayings, entertaining tales, agreeable humbugs, meery waggaries, smart repartees, good quibbles, keen replies, diverting jests funny jokes, lively bon mots, excellent puns, curious bulls, and other flashes of merriment. The whole being freed from the old, stale and insip...d jests, which are in most other collections, and contain more wit and fun than any thing of the kind ever yet published, though at more than treble the price. By Tim. Gape, grin-master general.
Gape, Tim., Grin-master General.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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Lord Chesterfield's witticisms; or, the grand pantheon of genius, sentiment, and taste. Containing, besides all his Lordship's genuine bons-mots, and other sallies of wit, every thing lively and spirited that stands recorded in the annals of the beau monde; with a number of valuable originals. Among these is presented, an high-seasoned olio of smart repartees, facetious anecdotes, genuine Hibernianisms, ingenious puns, notable sayings, singular characters, striking remarks, lively flights, whimsical stories, tales, &c. &c. &c. In many of which, the real manners and dispositions of some of the most distinguished personages in the circles of genius and politeness are humorously delineated. To these is added, a curious poetical desert, divested of ribaldry and indecency, consisting of humorous epigrams, mock epitaphs, jovial songs, &c. &c. With several puzzling novelties in the world of conundrum, Ænigma, Rebus, &c. &c. &c. both in verse and prose, and the solutions thereof. Prefixed are authentic memoirs of his Lordship, with a singular, though an authentic abstract of his will. And at the close are inserted (never before published) his Lordship's letters to his nephew, Philip, the present Earl of Chesterfield, while abroad. The whole forming a complete library of wit, without containing one immodest, immoral, or indelicate line, and calculated solely for those who wish to shine in polite company.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773.Date: [1775?]