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The Oxford miscellany. Consisting of The following Poems, Viz. I. Strephon's Revenge: A Satire on the Oxford Toasts. II. The Art of Beauty; dedicated to Belinda, a celebrated Oxford Beauty. III. The Oxford Critics, a Satire. IV. Several Odes of Horace, Martial and Buchanan imitated. To a Maiden Lady, who preferrs her Cat to all Mankind: On the Power of Musick: On the Death of Dr. Garth: Elirtilla, or the Coquet: The Maiden's Dream: Advice to an arrogant Prude: To the Authors of the foregoing Poem: The Adventure at the Masquerade, to Mrs. B--. On Mrs. M--t's being ill of a Fever: An Epistle to Sir R---St---e, occasion'd by the Eclipse: On the Lady Dorothy Savile: The character of an happy Life: The Arrow, in imitation of Mr. Prior's Dove: On Pride. With several other Odes, Satires, Songs and Translations. V. Mr. Pope's Worms, and a new Song on the Masquerades. VI. Evbvlvs Oxoniensis discipulis suis; being an imitation of the celebrated Qui Mihi, in Praise of Drunkenness. Vii. The six days Adventures of Philander and Amarillis, a Novel.
Date: 1720 [1724?]- Books
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Horace, book II. Satire VII. imitated: or, a dialogue between a man of fashion and his valet. Inscribed to Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq; by Sir Nicholas Nemo, Knt.
Nemo, Nicholas, Sir.Date: 1752- Books
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The mournful nuptials, or Love the Cure of all Woes, a tragedy. To which is prefixed a Preface, containing some Observations on Satire, and on the present State of our public Entertainments. By Mr. Cooke.
Cooke, Thomas, 1703-1756.Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The porcupine, alias the hedge-hog; or, The fox turned preacher. Written after the manner of Ignatius Irony, Bartholomew Burlesque, and Samuel Satire. By L.S. living in Fox-Island. [Four lines of scripture texts]
L. S.Date: August, 1784- Books
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Fun: A Parodi-Tragi-Comical Satire. As it was to have been perform'd at the Rose-Tavern, on Thursday, February 13, 1752, but suppressed by a special order from the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen.
Kenrick, W. (William), 1725?-1779.Date: M,DCC,LII. [1752]- Books
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A Satire upon physicians, Or An English paraphrase, with notes and references, of Dr. King's most memorable oration, delivered at the dedication of the Radclivian Library in Oxford. To which is added, a curious petition to an Hon. House, in favour of Dr. King.
Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
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Fun: A Parodi-Tragi-Comical Satire. As it was to have been perform'd at the Castle-Tavern, Pater-Noster-Row, on Thursday, February 13, 1752, but suppressed, by a special order from the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen.
Kenrick, W. (William), 1725?-1779.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Pictures
Mimes from the pantomimime; representing British politicians with Queen Victoria at Christmas 1837. Lithograph by H. Heath.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Date: 7 January 1838Reference: 608230iPart of: Sketches of satire- Books
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The lovers petition to Parliament against the thieves. By a noble lord. With the thieves answer. By a lady. To which is added, A gallant adventur upon it. Handed about in a late Reign, and now publish'd as a Satire upon Advertising Lovers.
Date: 1743
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Beards takin off. & registurd! / by Isaac Fac-Totum, barber, peri-wig maker, surgeon, parish clark, scool master, blacksmith, and man-midwife.
Fac-Totum, IsaacDate: [Between 1790 and 1799?]- Books
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London: A Satire. Containing Prosaical Strictures on Prisons, Inns of Court, Courts of Justice, Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs Officers, Prostitutes, Play and Opera Houses, Gaming, Churches, Tower, Custom-House, East-India-House, Excise-Office, Bank, Bedlam, Royal-Exchange, Mansion-House, Guildhall, Heralds-Office, Doctors-Commons, Court of Admiralty, College of Physicians, Bridewell, Westminster-Abbey, and St. Stephen's Chapel, &c.
Date: [1782?]- Digital Images
Le magnetisme.
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Le Mesmerisme Confondu.
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The female Dunciad. Containing I. A faithful Account of the Intrigues, Gallantries and Amours of Alexander Pope, of Twickenham, Esq; Written by Himself. II. A Satire upon the Court-Lords and Ladies. Written also by him in the Year 1717. III. A single Instance of his Repentance. IV. The New, Surprizing Metamorphosis: or, Mr. Pope turn'd into a Stinging-Nettle; being a Familiar Epistle from a Gentleman in Town to a Lady in the Country. Occasion'd by reading the Dunciad. V. Irish Artifice; or, The History of Clarina. A Novel. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. VI. Female Worthies. By the Bishop of Peterborough. The whole being a Continuation of the Twickenham Hotch-Potch.
Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, diversified with an uncommon variety of merry tales; Pointed Satire's; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welsh, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the Works of the most celebrated Authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from Originals, taken from private Manuscripts.
Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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Poems on several occasions, from genuine manuscripts of Dean Swift, Mr. H----m, Mr. C----r, Mr. G----r, Mr. S---b---p, Mr. K---dd---e, &c. &c. Containing, Advice to Mr. L-gg-n, the Fan Painter at Tunbridge Wells, a Satire, the Second Edition with the Additions never before printed. Verses, occasioned by ditto. A Fable inscribed to the Right Hon. Lady Mary T-ft-n. The Storm. A Dialogue at Tunbridge Wells. Verses at Mereworth, the Seat of the Earl of Westmorland. The Universal Laugh. Chloe to M-rr-t by the E- of C-d. On Miss B-ks and Miss H-w. On Miss S- and Miss C- The Battle of the Hoops. Songs, Riddles, &c. &c.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1749- Books
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An appeal to the nation, on the subject of Mr. Gilbert Wakefield's letter to William Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. to which are subjoined four sermons, on important subjects, connected with the appeal. ̀̀appello Casarem,'' universumque Populum. ̀̀praise undeserv'd is Censure in Disguise;'' So sang a Bard of other Days: Then Wakefield's Satire Wilberforce may prize; For Censure undeserv'd is Praise. By the Rev. George Hutton, B. D. Curate of Plumtree, near Nottingham, and lately Fellow of St. Mary Magdalene College, Oxford.
Hutton, George, 1764 or 1765-1817.Date: 1798- Books
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Clarendon and Whitlock compar'd. To which is occasionally added, a comparison between the History of the rebellion, and other histories of the Civil War. Proving very plainly, that the editors of the Lord Clarendon's history, have hardly left one fact, or one character on the Parliament side, fairly represented; That the Characters are all Satire, or Panegyrick, and the Facts adapted to the one, or the other, as suited best with their Design. Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis & quae sentias dicere licet. Tacit. Lib. I. Nulla veritas ita diserte ulla de re cavere potest, ut malitiosa Calliditas locum fraudi non inveniat. Ulpian. By the author of the Critical history of England, &c.
Oldmixon, Mr. (John), 1673-1742.Date: 1727- Books
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The Patron a satire.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The travellers. A satire.
Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Friendship : A satire.
Greene, Edward Burnaby, -1788.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
Némésis, satire hebdomadaire / [Barthélemy].
Barthélemy, 1796-1867.Date: 1832- Books
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Woman unmask'd, and dissected; a satire.
Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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The juvenaliad. A satire.
Wallis, George, 1740-1802.Date: [1774?]- Books
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A satire. Also, Imitation of the first satire of Boileau.
Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]