365 results filtered with: English literature - 18th century
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The father's gift: Or the Way to be wise and happy.
Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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Reliqui? juveniles: miscellaneous thoughts in prose and verse, on natural, moral, and divine subjects; written chiefly in younger years. By I. Watts, D.D.
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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Miscellanies in prose and verse, by a person of quality.
Suffolk, Edward Howard, Earl of, 1672-1731.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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Essays in prose and verse, partly collected, and partly original for the improvement of younger minds.
Date: [1775]- Books
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Whartoniana: or, miscellanies, in verse and prose. By the Wharton family, and several other persons of distinction. Never before published. ...
Wharton, Philip Wharton, Duke of, 1698-1731.Date: 1727- Books
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Liberal opinions, or the history of Benignus, by Courtney Melmoth. In six volumes. The Abode of Benignus discover'd. ...
Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Original letters and essays, on a variety of subjects, moral and entertaining. By J. H. Prince, Author of, ̀̀a Defence of the People denominated Methodists:'' and, ̀̀the Christian's Duty to God and the Constitution.''
Prince, J. H. (John Henry), 1770-Date: 1797- Books
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The babbler. Consisting of original essays, on the most interesting and familiar topics. ... In two volumes. ...
Kelly, Hugh, 1739-1777.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Miscellanies, in prose and verse, consisting of essays, Abstracts, Original Poems, Letters, Tales, Translations, Panegyricks, Epigrams, and epitaphs. By Emanuel Collins, A. B. Late of Wadham College, Oxon.
Collins, Emanuel, 1711 or 1712-Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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The works of George Lord Lyttelton; formerly printed separately: and now first collected together, with some other pieces never before printed. Published by George Edward Ayscough, Esq. ...
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Jemmy Carson's collections. Being a revival of his own labours and lucubrations, for forty years past; with pieces upon different subjects, by several hands[.]
Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The works of the late ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: containing all his poems, letters, essays and comedies, publish'd in his life-time. In two volumes.
Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707.Date: 1742- Books
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The muse's vagaries; or, the merry mortal's companion. Consisting of facetious tales, satirical jokes, diverting letters, Comical Songs, Humorous Epigrams, Whimsical Wills, Epitaphs, &c. &c. &c. &c. The whole calculated to create Mirth and good Humour; to cure the Spleen and expel Vapours; drive away Sorrow; and increase the Diversion of all the Merry Fellows, Honest Hearts, and Jovial Souls round about the Wrekin. By Sir Solomon Gundy, Knt. and Margery Merrypin, spinster.
Gundy, Solomon, Sir.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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A help to elocution and eloquence. Containing three essays. I. On reading and declamation, wherein the Principles of both are laid down under the several Heads of Emphasis, Climax, Modulation, Pauses, Breaks, Transitions, Cadences, and Gesture. II. On the marks and characters of the different passions and affections of the mind. III. On composition, tending to explain and illustrate the Beauties of fine Writing, and the Principles on which they depend. Designed to form the Minds of Youth to a true Taste in Reading; to enable them to judge of the Beauties of Writing from their own Observation; and to ground them in an elegant Manner of Composition. To which is added, a very large collection of examples, in Prose and Verse, selected from the Best Authors, for the Exercise of the Scholar in Reading and Declaiming. For the use of schools.
Date: 1770- Books
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The new modern story-teller; in a variety of original tales and novels, in verse and in prose. Among which is now first published, BY Desire, The celebrated Tale of the Lawyer and his inkhorn. With a new epilogue.
Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The hive of modern literature: a collection of essays, narratives, allegories, and instructive compositions; Calculated to instil into the youthful Mind the Principles of Morality, Friendship, Honour, Truth, Justice, and the other Virtuous Dispositions. Which Fortify it Against the Allurements of Vice and Youthful Propensities, Too Apt to Grow into Incurable Habits.
Date: 1799- Books
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Poems, fables, and plays, by Edward Moore.
Moore, Edward, 1712-1757.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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Poetic laurels for characters of distinguished merit; interspersed with Poems, Moral and Entertaining: dedicated to his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, By Maria and Harriet Falconar, authors of a collection of poems, and slavery, a tract.
Falconar, Maria, 1770 or 1771-Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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An asylum for fugitive pieces, in prose and verse, not in any other collection: with several pieces never before published. Vol. III.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXXIX [1789]- Books
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The works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq; volume the first. Containing, The ambitious step-mother. Tamerlane. The fair penitent. Ulysses.
Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The foundling hospital for wit. Intended For the Reception and Preservation of such Brats of Wit and Humour, whose Parents chuse to Drop them. Containing All the Satires, Odes, Ballads, Epigrams, &c. that have been wrote since the Change of the Ministry, many of which have never before been Printed. Number I. To be continued Occasionally.
Silence, Samuel.Date: 1743- Books
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The amusing instructor; or, a key to the Italian classics: containing a choice collection of remarkable sayings, and anecdotes, in Italian and English. Wherein the genuine pronunciation of the Italian is rendered obvious at sight, by means of proper characters. Also, an obe on liberty, ascribed to petrarch; and elegant sonnet, hitherto unpublished, on the suppression of the celebrated academy Della Crusca with an lmitation of each in English verse, by a distinguished Pen. The whole preceded by a copious and critical treatise on the pronunciation of the Italian tongue, by the editor, Antonio Montucci, LL.D. A native of Sienna, and graduate of the University of that city.
Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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A collection of prose and verse, from the best English authors, for the use of schools. By Arthur Masson, M. A. Late Teacher of Languages in Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
Date: 1796- Books
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The speculatist. A collection of letters and essays, moral and political, serious and humorous: upon various subjects.
Concanen, Mr. (Matthew), 1701-1749.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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Miscellanies in prose and verse. By Paul Hiffernan, M.D. Lusimus haec olim, nec meminisse piget.
Hiffernan, Paul, 1719-1777.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]