115 results filtered with: English wit and humor
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Scrapeana. Fugitive miscellany; or, a medley of choice bon mots, repartees, etc. To which is added, a large collection of Yorkshire anecdotes.
Croft, John, 1732-1820.Date: MDCCXCII [1792]- Books
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The witticisms, anecdotes, jests, and sayings, of Dr. Samuel Johnson, during the whole course of his life. Collected from Boswell, Piozzi, Hawkins, Baretti, Beauclerk, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other gentlemen in the Habits of Intimacy with the Doctor. And a Full Account of Dr. Johnson's Conversation with the King. To which is Added, A great Number of Jests, In which the most distinguished Witt of the present Century bore a Part. By J. Merry, Esq. of Pembroke College.
Date: 1797- Books
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The fashionable tell-tale; containing a great variety of entertaining anecdotes and bons mots, expressive of the characters of persons of rank, Distinguished for their wit, taste, or humour. Selected from the most celebrated authors. The third edition, greatly improved. To which is prefixed, a letter from the late David Garrick, Esq. to the editor. In two volumes. ...
Date: 1787- Books
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The repository: a select collection of fugitive pieces of wit and humour, in prose and verse. By the most eminent writers. ...
Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The History of four Kings. Their queens and daughters. Kings of Canterbury, Colchester, Cornwall and Cumberland. Being the merry tales of Tom Hodge. And his school-fellows.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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Attic wit; or, a Medley of Humour: Containing an Agreeable Variety of Bon Mots, Jokes, & Repartees; Being Humorous, Whimsical, Laughable, Novel and Sentimental; In Prose and Verse. Designed To promote Mirth, Jocularity, and Chearfulness, in in Both Sexes.
Date: 1791- Books
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Coffee-House jests. Being a merry companion: containing witty jests, wise sayings, smart repartees, Jokes, Pleasant Tales, Notable Buils. with several short delightful histories, novels, and other curious fancies.
Hickes, William, active 1671.Date: [1733]- Books
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The complete London jester, or, wit's companion; containing all the fun and all the humour, ... which have lately flowed from the two universities, ...
Date: 1769- Books
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Joe Miller's jests: or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the most excellent bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English Language; many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman whose Name they bear. To which are added, choice collections of moral sentences, and of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British Tongue; With the Names of the Authors to such as are known. Most humbly Inscribed To those choice spirits of the age, His Majesty's Poet - Laurear, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Bodens's Horse, Tom Jones, the most impudent Man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker the Kettle-Drummer.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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An election ball, in poetical letters from Mr. Inkle, at Bath, to his wife at Glocester: with a poetical address to John Miller, Esq. at Batheaston Villa. By the author of The new Bath guide.
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, excellent bons mots, and the most pleasant short stories in the English Language; many of them transcribed from the mouth of the fecetious gentleman whose name they bear. To which are a added, choice collection of moral sentences, and the most pointed and truly valuble epigrams in the British Tongue; with the names of the antbors ot such as are knowg. Most humbly inscribed to those choice spirits of the age, His Majesty's Poet-Laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Boden's house, Tom Jones, the most impudent man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker, the kettle drummer.
Date: [1796?]- 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. Number III. to be continued occasionally. ... By Timothy Silence, Esq;
Silence, Timothy.Date: 1746- Books
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Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-Mecum. Being a collection of the brilliant jests, the most excellent bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English language; many of them trascribed from the mouth of the facetious gentleman whose name they bear. To which are added, choice collection of moral senteces. And of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British tongue; with the names of the authors to such as are known; most humbley inscribed to those choice spirits of the age, His Majesty's Poet Laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Loden's Horse, Tom Jones, the most impudent man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker the kettle drummer.
Date: [1750?]- Books
Character sketches, development drawings, and original pictures of wit and humour / Done in permanent lines for posterity, by Charles H. Bennett & Robert B. Brough. Illustrated with ninety-four engravings, and many head-pieces and finials.
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867.Date: [1872]- Books
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Joe Miller's jests: or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the most excellent Bons Mots, and most pleasant short Stories in the English Language; many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman whose Name they bear. To which are added, choice collections of moral sentences, and of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British tongue; With the Names of the Authors to such as are known. Most humbly Inscribed To those choice spirits of the age, His Majesty's Poet-Laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Bodens's Horse, Tom Jones, the most Impudent Man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker the Kettle-Drummer.
Date: [1772?]- Books
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Leisure hours amusements for town and country: being a select collection of the most humourous and diverting stories which are dispersed in the writings of the best English authors. To which is now added, a collection of characters, Copied from the Original Drawings of the Greatest Masters. ...
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- 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. Number V. to be Continued Occasionally. Containing, 1. The Litchfield Defeat. 2. The Answer. 3. Ode to P. Y-ke, Esq; 4. Richmond, a Vision. 5. Bergen-op-Zoom, a Ballad. 6. Balaam and Palaam. 7. Green-Room Scuffle. 8. Epistle from G. Hinde. 9. Hymn for the 9th of Oct. 10. Advice to the French King's Painter. 11. Lamentations of Lewis 15. 12. On the Tax on Coaches. 13. Ode to Sir C---H---W---. 14. Diggon Davy and Colin Clout. 15. An Apology. 16. Downfal of Westm. Bridge. 17. Plot and no Plot. 18. Boeotia. 19. Europe in Masquerade. 20. Speech of King Harry the Ninth. With many other Curious Pieces, some of which never before printed. By Timothy Silence, Esq;
Silence, Timothy.Date: 1746- Books
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Joe Miller's jests: or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests; the Politest Repartees; the most Elegant Bons Mots, and most pleasant short Stories in the English Language. First carefully collected in the Company, and many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman, whose Name they bear; and now set forth and published by his lamentable Friend and former Companion, Elijah Jenkins, Esq; Most Humbly Inscribed To those Choice-Spirits of the age, Captain Bodens, Mr. Alexander Pope, Mr. Professor Lacy, Mr. Orator Henley, Job Baker, the Kettle-Drummer, and Mr. T. W's very good Masters the Town.
Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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England's jests refin'd and improv'd; with the addition of eight new novels never before printed: and an excellent receipt to cure mad love. With several new and diverting Letters, and Answers, extreamly Comical and Entertaining.
Crouch, Humphrey, active 1635-1671.Date: 1702- Books
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Polite modern jester: or, wit a-la-mode. Consisting of a choice collection of Facetious Anecdotes, Ingenious Puns, Smart Repartees, Diverting Stories, Singular Characters, Humourous Adventures, Lively Jests, Smart Quibbles, Genuine Hibernianisms, Pleasing poetical Pieces, Droll Epigrams, Epitaphs, &c. &c. Making A Complete Olio for every Palate: Being Wholly divested of Ribaldry and Indecency. By T. Brown, jun, Esq.; True Wit is Nature to Advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. Pope.
Brown, T., jun, Esq.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Peter Cunningham's New jest book; or, modern high life below stairs. Containing The Newest, Drollest, Queerest, Compleatest, most Comical, most Facetious, and best Collection (ever offered to the Inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland) Of AtDiverting Jests, Funny Jokes, Frolicksome Stories, Humorous Sayings, Entertaining Tales, Lively Bonmots, Pleasant Adventures, Keen Repartees, Merry Waggartes, Excellent Puns, Curious Bulls, Irish, Scotch, and English; Smart Quibbles, Agreeable Humbugs, Witty Gibes, and other Flashes of Merriment. To Which Are Added, The following humorous and agreeable Articles, viz. New, Merry, and Ingenious Conundrums, Rebusses, Riddles, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Poems, Acrosties, and other Witticisms. Together With An entire new Selection of Toasts, Sentiments, Hobnobs, &c. at this Time used in the best Companies in London and Westminster. Calculated for both Sexes, to kill Care, to banish Sorrow, and to promote Mirth, Fun, Jollity, and Good Humour: Almost the Whole of this Work being really New, and written on Purpose, by Peter Cunningham, Esq; Professor of Drollery at Oxford; assisted by Bet Rigby, President of a Club of Female Wits in the Haymarket. Would you be eas'd of Care and Grief; Here shall you find a sweet Relief; Read, and you'll find in ev'ry Page, True Wit and Humour to engage.
Cunningham, Peter, Professor of Drollery at Oxford.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The new entertaining humorist. Containing a curious collection of interesting and diverting miscellanies, in prose and verse. In which the various effects of virtue and vice are represented as they daily appear in the great Theatre of the World; and Divers Instances of Love and Gallantry elegantly Displayed. Being an agreeable and instructive Companion for all ranks and sexes.
Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Ned Ward's jests, or repository of wit and humour: containing a new collection of brilliant jests, merry stories, witty sayings, ... To which is added, a new collection of humourous songs, ...
Ward, Ned.Date: 1757- Books
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Love at first sight; or, the gay in a flutter. Being a collection of advertisements, chiefly comic, Directed to and from Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Marybon, Cuper's, and other Gardens, both public and private, the Opera-House, both the Theatres, White's Chocolate-House, St. James's, Rainbow, Tom's, Slaughter's, Pon's, Bedford, Lebec, and most of the polite Coffee-Houses and Taverns about Town. Under the borrowed Names of Altamont, Aminta, Bellimperia, Bevile, Budd, Clarinda, Clarissa, Cleanthes, Constantia, Corrina, Cusifle, Cynthia, Decency, Dicky, Dorinda, Endymion, Flash, Fortunatus, Fribble, Goodwill, Heartfree, Julia, Lindamira, Melissa, Mendstays, Mira, Miranda, No-Body, Pantin, Pariochus, Philomel, Philopatrius, Phit, Ridens, Romeo, Sacharissa, Some-Body, Strephon, Sylvia, Vidow-Hunt. With many others equally entertaining. Othello by Mr. Garrick, Desdemona by Mr. Quin, Miss. Polly Baker, and Henry Foolding, Esq; &c. &c.
Date: [1750]- Books
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The padlock open'd: or, Mungo's medley. Being a choice collection of the miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse, serious and comic, of Mungo the padlock-keeper of Drury Lane.
Mungo, Padlock-Keeper of Drury Lane.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]