190 results filtered with: English wit and humor - Early works to 1800
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Polly Peachum's jests. In which are comprised most of the witty apothegms, diverting tales, and smart repartees that have been used for many years last past, either at St. James's or St. Giles's: Suited aliked to the Capacities of the Peer, and the Porter.
Date: M,DCC,XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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Wit and mirth or, Pills to purge melancholy: Being a choice collection of the best merry ballads, and above a hundred of the best songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: many of the songs being new sett. Vol. V. To which is also added, a collection of excellent poems.
Playford, Henry, 1657-1706?.Date: 1714- Books
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The polite jester: or, theatre for wit. Containing diverting jests, smart repartees, Brilliant Bon Mots, Sensible Puns, Keen Epigrams, Pleasing Tales, Comical Bulls, Choice Riddles, Good Conundrums, Witty Epitaphs, &c. Interspersed with a great variety of comic poetry. The whole intended for Chearful Amusement, and is free from indelicacy.
Date: 1796- Books
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Wits academy: or, the Muses Delight. Being the newest academy of complements. Consisting of merry dialogues upon various occasions, Composed of Mirth, Wit, and Eloquence. As also Divers sorts of letters Upon several Occasions, both Merry and Jocose: Helpful for the Inexpert to imitate, and pleasant to those of better Judgment, at their own leisure to peruse. With a perfect collection of all the newest and best songs and catches, That are and have been in Request at Court, and both the Theatres.
Hicks, William, active 1671.Date: 1701- Books
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Killigrew's jests: or, a Pocket Companion for the wits. Being a choice collection of merry conceits, facetious Drolleries, humorous Waggeries, smart Repartees, pleasant Jokes, Clenchers, Closures, Bons Mots, and Humbugs; comic Stories, notable Puns, witty Quibbles, and ridiculous Bulls. To which are added, Mr. Puzzlewit's gimcracks; or, A long String of out-o'th'way Conundrums, diverting Rebusses, poignant Epigrams, odd and uncommon Epitaphs, &c. &c. All calculated to promote inoffensive mirth, and divert good Company with Elegance and Taste. Containing more in Number, and greater Variety, than any Book of the Kind yet published. The fourth edition. Humbly inscribed to the choice spirits of the age. By Ferdinando Killigrew, Esq;
Killigrew, Ferdinando.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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[Fun upon fun:] or, The comical merry tricks of Leper the taylor. Part II.
Date: Printed in the year, MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The humourist.
Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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Wit for the ton! The convivial jester; or Sam Foote's last budget opened. Containing original and authentic anecdotes, bon mots, jocose Remarks, poignant Repartees, whimsical Occurrences, queer Hums, inimitable Witticisms, &c. of that immortal Child of Humour The English Aristophanes; with authentic memoirs of his life and writings, and a particular Recital of the many laughable Incidents which befel him in the former, and the various whimsical Occurrences that gave rise to the latter. Since we mean to make you laugh, Our Motto is an Epitaph. Sam. Foote is dead, yet do not weep, His Wit alive will ever keep; And tho' his Body's under Ground, You'll find his Humour here abound. Poor Sam. now with the Worms resides, Yet here a Friend with Care provides Enough of him to shake your Sides Then if a Tear should wet your Eye, Let it be Laughing makes you cry; With Spleen and Grief still be at Strife, You'll find in Wit and Mirth there's Life.
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.Date: [1778?]- Books
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Oxford jests, refined and enlarged: being a collection of witty jests, merry tales, pleasant jokes. Collected and composed by Captain W. Hicks, native of Oxford.
Hicks, William, active 1671.Date: [1720?]- Books
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The humours of London, a choice collection of songs: for all those who would render themselves agreeable, divert company, kill care, and be joyous: Where the High-Seasoned Wit and Humour will be a sufficient Apology for a Bad Voice; and whereby such as have a tolerable One will be able to shine. Consisting of A greater Number of Valuable, and real Originals, than were ever before published in any Single Collection; besides a Choice Variety by Geo. Alex. Stevens, Harry Howard, Frank Hammond, Mr. T. Mozeen, And other Celebrated Geniuses: Many of which were quite out of Print, and are not to be met with in any other Book whatsoever.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The sailor's jester; or, merry lad's companion: a diverting, droll and entertaining collection of funny jests, witty replies, Laughable Tales, Strange Adventures, Wonderful Histories, dangerous escapes, of the brave tars of old England, From The Captain To The Cabin Boy: Being a constant Companion for a Merry Sailor, who over a Can of Grog is telling how he singed the Whiskers of a Don, and tripped up the Heels of a Monsicur. The whole being a diverting friend between the watches.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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A Select collection of historical tracts and anecdotes, in English and French. [One line in Latin from Horace]
Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The third part of the mad pranks and merry conceits of Tom Tram.
Date: printed in this present year, [1775?]- Books
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The muse in good humour: or, a collection of comic tales. By the editor of the first volume. Vol. II.
Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Books
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Woman's wit, a jest-book for the ladies; consisting of an amazing variety of original strokes of humour, calculated solely for the entertainment of the fair sex. ... With select songs, ... The whole freed from that load of indelicacy which has hitherto disgraced all the books of this kind.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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The universal jester: or, a compleat book of jests. Containing a pleasant variety of English jests, Irish Jests, Oxford Jests, Cambridge Jests, Coffee-House Jests, Novels, Bulls, Stories, Jokes, and Puns, &c. To which is added, Hell in an Uproar; or, A Scuffle between ... Lawyers and Physicians for Superiority. ... Satyr.
Date: 1718- Books
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Ornatissimus joculator: or, the Compleat Jester. Containing, 1. celebrated jests, 2. merry jokes, 3. witty punns, 4. Notorious Bulls, 5. Pleasant Tales, And 6. Uncommon and Delightful Stories. Accurately collected, and plac'd under their Proper and Distinct Heads. To which is added, Wit's activity display'd: Instructing the meanest Capacity how to perform several Pieces of Art and Ingenuity to the Wonder and Admiration of the Spectators.
Date: 1703- Books
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The entertaining companion, or, the merry jester; being a choice collection of the most entertaining jests, witty sayings, smart Repartees, remarkable Stories, comical Tales, &c. Extracted from the most celebrated authors, viz. Ben Johnson, Lord Rochester, Lord Moon, the Earls of Warwick and Pembrooke, Joe Miller, &c. With the diverting Frolicks of King Charles and his Concubines.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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Apollo's feast: or, Wits entertainment. Consisting of pleasant intrigues, delightful stories, ingenious poems, witty repartees, merry bulls, old tales, novels, and prologues and epilogues spoke and writ by Jo. Haynes and Mr. Pinkeman, and others the most diverting comedians. All collected from the most ingenious of the age, and now published by the Author of The pills to purge melancholy.
Date: 1703- Books
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The comical sayings of Pady from Cork, with his coat button'd behind. Being an elegant conference betwixt English Tom and Irish Teague; with Pady's catechism, his Opinion of Purgatory, the State of the drad; and his Petition when a Mountain Sailor. To which is added This Creid for All Romish Believers.
Date: 1798- Books
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Sterne's witticisms, or Yorick's convivial jester; containing a variety of pleasing bon mots, humourous and sentimental anecdotes, diverting Tales, funny Jokes, and smart Repartees, of Laur. Sterne, Hogarth, Chesterfield, Garrick, Foote, Sheridan, Mansfield, Dunning, Burke, Townsend, Graham, Ward, Fothergill, Cunningham, Madan, Lady W-r, Dutch of K-n, Parker, Rodney, Hawke, &c. &c. To which are added in the Poets Corner Select Poems, Verses, Songs, Epigrams, and Toasts, humourous and sentimental, for The Amusement of Convivial Assemblies.
Date: [1782]- Books
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The new London city jester; or, a banquet of wit, mirth, and fancy. Calculated for the entertainment and amusement of both sexes. Including All The Fashionable Jests, Epigrams, Merry Tales, Humorous Jokes, Bon Mots, Conundrums, Irish Bulls, Comical Humbugs, Droll Narrations, Smart Repartees, New Adventures, Funny Epitaphs, And Witticisms, &c. &c.
Date: [1797]- Books
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Wit for the ton! The Convivial Jester; or, Sam Foote's Last Budget Opened. Containing original and authentic anecdotes, bon mots, jocose Remarks, poignant Repartees, whimsical Occurrences, queer Hums, inimitable Witticisms, &c. of that immortal Child of Humour The English Aristophanes. With authentic memoirs of his life and writings, and a particular Recital of the many laughable Incidents which befel him in the former, and the various whimsical Occurrences that gave rise to the later.
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.Date: 1783- Books
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The laugher's delight; or the alive-and-merry-fellow, containing, the true art of jesting, Being an Hour's Laugh at any Time, and design'd on Purpose to make the Heart Merry, and to prevent and expell Spleen and Melacholly, and drive the Evenings away with Mirth and Jollity. Usefull to all especially to those who take Physic. Dedicated to the Lovers of Fun and Goodfellowship.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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Scogin's jests; full of witty mirth, and pleasant shifts; done by him in France and other places. Being a preservative again [sic] melancholy. Gathered by Andrew Board, ...
Date: 1796