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Songs duets, choruses, &c: in Harlequin Peasant; or, a pantomime rehearsed. Performed at the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market.
Date: 1793- Pictures
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Peasants interrupting their work for the Angelus. Lithograph after J.F. Millet.
Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875.Reference: 30649i- Pictures
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Peasants sitting, smoking, outside an inn as the hostess pours a glass of ale. Engraving by J. Suyderhoff after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 24702i- Books
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Peasants under siege : the collectivization of Romanian agriculture, 1949-1962 / Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery.
Kligman, GailDate: [2011], ©2011- Pictures
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Peasants doing farmwork, thatching their huts and preparing food; representing the Silver Age. Etching by A. Tempesta.
Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630.Reference: 39008i- Pictures
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Peasants avenging themselves by attacking soldiers from woods next to a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44144i- Books
Peasants against nature : crossing the bounderies between man and animal in seventeenth and eighteenth century Sweden / Jonas Liliequist.
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The golden cabinet: being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts. Containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, Prom the Peer to the Peasant: And will afford both Profit and Delight.
Date: 1773- Books
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A plea for the poor: or remarks on The Price of Provisions, and the Peasant's Labour: The Bounties allowed on the Exportation of Corn, especially Wheat: with Proposals for their Emendation. -Tantique operis ... ... Ovid. By Robert Applegarth.
Applegarth, Robert.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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The follies of a day; or, the marriage of Figaro. A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de Beaumarchais. By Thomas Holcroft. Author of Duplicity, a Comedy, the Noble Peasant, an Opera, &c.
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Poems on various subjects. Viz. The power of love, Shropshire-Wedding, Advice to a Friend, The Virtuous Maid, a Pastoral. Two Elegies, Combermere, a Poem. Antisthenes and Diogenes, a Satyr. Bunch Hesperus, a Poem. Old Simon, a Tale: The Pedlar, a Tale. The Beggar, The Peasant, a Poem in two Books. Delights for the Ladies, containing new Aenigmas and mathematical Questions, all in Verse, &c. &c. To which is added, The merry miller: or, the country-man's ramble to London. A Farce of two Acts. By Thomas Sadler. Author of several Pieces, which have occasionally been inserted in the Magazines, Diaries, Palladium, &c.
Sadler, Thomas, active 1766-1768.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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A looking-Glass that flatters not: representing the unhappy and tottering state of men in power, tho' rais'd to the highest pinnacle of honour and greatness: Being Contemplations And Reflections Upon The several Degrees and Changes of Human Life, from the Prince to the Peasant. Me dulcis saturet Quies, &c. Written by a displac'd courtier.
Displac'd courtier.Date: [1711]- Books
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The polite companion; or, wit a-la-mode. Adapted to the Recreation of all Ranks and Degrees, from the Prince to the Peasant. Including a rich variety of comical jests, smart epigrams, diverting rildles, [sic] humorous, serious, and elegant Monumental Inscriptions, merry Tales, and entertaining Stories. interspersed with instructive narratives, affecting examples, wise Maxims and Precepts, and [s]age Remarks. The Whole tending to promote innocent Mirth and pleasant Conversation.
Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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Fisher's cheerful companion to promote laughter; being a humorous collection of interesting stories for a winter's evening fireside; or amusement for summer, in a shady retreat. Containing the Stories of The Three Dexterous Thieves, The Wishes, The Widgeon, The Lucky Disaster, The Hunch-Back'd Minstrels, The Conjurer, The Fortunate Peasant, The Two Rogues, The Humorous Miller, The Adventures of Searamouch The Unfortunate Spaniard, The Ghost, and Mutual Confidence on the Wedding Night.
Fisher, S. (Simon).Date: [1800]- Books
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Celenia and Adrastes; with the delightful history of Hyempsal, King of Numidia: an allegorical romance. Wherein are Recited, The most refined Maxims of State-Policy; the surprising Revolutions of Kingdoms; and the just Vengeance attending Evil Ministers. Interspersed with The following Moral and Instructive Incidents viz. 1. Blood and Lust: Or, The Unparallel'd Adulterer. 2. The Beautiful Peasant: or, The Rape of Diana. 3. The Artificial Devil: or, The Taming of a Shrew. 4. Artemora: or, The Fatality of too early Marriages. 5. The Perfidious Servant: or, Treachery Punish'd. 6. Roxana: or, The Lady surrounded by Lovers. 7. The Polite Converts: or, The Generous Instructor. 8. The Lucky Discovery: or, Right will take Place. 9. Royalty Concealed: or, The Faithful shepherdess 10. The Exil'd Nobleman: or, Honour restored. 11. Amphitryo: or, The Usurper's Downfal. 12. Faction disarm'd: or, The Triumphs of Adrastes. In two volumes. ...
Zelis, the Persian.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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The comforts of matrimony; or, loves last shift : consisting of matrimonial dialogues, between persons of all ranks and degrees, from the Peer to the Peasant; Describing the Pains and the Pleasures consequent on Matrimony, and including a thousand Incidents most interesting and entertaining to every Married Person: comprizing many pieces well worthy the notice of the unmarried of both sexes. By Ned Ward, Junior.
Ward, Ned, Junior.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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A description of the nature of slavery among the Moors. And the cruel sufferings of those that fall into it; With the Manner of their being brought and sold like Beasts at Publick Markets; and several curious Incidents relating to the Customs now in Use with the Barbarians, from the King to the meanest Peasant. To which is added, an account of Capt. Stuart's negociations for the redemption of the English captives, as also the Success thereof; with an exact List of the Persons that were redeem'd, the Number of those that turn'd Moors, or dy'd during the Treaty, and their Passage Home, and the Names and Ladings of the respective Ships taken by the Sallee Rovers, from October 5, 1714, to July 14, 1721. written by one of the said redeem'd captives.
Date: [1721]- Books
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The Greek peasant / by Scott G. McNall.
McNall, Scott GDate: 1974- Books
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The origins of peasant servitude in medieval Catalonia / Paul Freedman.
Freedman, Paul, 1949-Date: 1991- Books
The thinking peasant : popular and educated belief in pre-industrial culture / Christina Larner.
Larner, Christina.Date: [1982], ©1982- Books
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The Sunday-peasant. A poem.
Newburgh, Thomas.Date: CMXX [1750?]- Digital Images
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Terracotta representation of a kneeling peasant, Africa.
S. Ntiro- Digital Images
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Terracotta representation of a kneeling peasant, Africa.
S. Ntiro- Digital Images
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Terracotta representation of a kneeling peasant, Africa.
S. Ntiro- Books
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The great Soviet peasant war : Bolsheviks and peasants, 1917-1933 / Andrea Graziosi.
Graziosi, Andrea, 1954-Date: [1996], ©1996