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Poems. Containing I. Semira, - an elegy. II. Abelard to Eloisa. III. Ambition.
Date: [1778?]- Books
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. A tragedy. Written by M. Wil. Shakespear. Revised by Mr. Pope.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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The tragical ballad: or, the lady who fell in love with her serving-man.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
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The 'squire of St. James's.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
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The politick wife: or, the devil outwitted by a woman.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
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Howe triumphant! Or, the glorious first of June. An heroic poem. By Romaine Joseph Thorn, Author of Clito and Delia-Mad Gallop, or a Trip to Devizes-Retirement-Bristolia, &c.
Thorn, Romaine Joseph.Date: [1794]- Books
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The royal courtly garland. Or, joy after sorrow.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
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Priestcraft defended. A sermon occasioned by the expulsion of six young gentlemen from the University of Oxford, for praying, reading, and expounding the Scriptures. Humbly dedicated to Mr. V- C-r and the H-ds of H-s, by their humble servant, the shaver.
Macgowan, John, 1726-1780.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Cardanus Rider's sheet almanack, for the year of Our Lord God, 1787. Being the third after bissextile, or leap year. Common notes and moveable feasts in 1787. Dominical letter - - G golden Number - - - 2 cycle of the sun - - 4 epact - - - - - - 11 Roman indiction - - 5 shrove Sunday 18 Feb. Easter Day - 8 April. Whit Sunday - 27 May. Trinity Sunday 3 June. Advent Sunday 2 Dec. Venus will be a morning Star till the 18th of October, afterwards an evening Star to the year's end. Jupiter is an evening Star till May 24, then a morning Star till Dec. 13, and then an evening Star to the year's end. Six Eclipses will happen this year: I. Jan. 3, moon eclipsed, visible; from 10 at Night, till 35 m. past one in the morning of Jan. 4. II. Jan. 19, sun eclipsed, visible; from 54 m. past nine, till 12 m. past eleven morning. III. June 15, sun eclipsed, visible; from 12 m. past four, till 47 m. past five in the afternoon. IV. June 30, moon eclipsed, invisible; at one in the afternoon. V. Dec. 9, sun eclipsed, invisible; at a Quarter past four in the afternoon. VI. Dec. 24, moon eclipsed, visible; from 42 min. past one, till 32 min. past four in the afternoon.
Rider, Cardanus.Date: [1787]- Books
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The rival lap dog and the tale, (as ladys fancys never fail;) that little rival to the great: So odd, indeed, we scarce dare say't.
Date: [1730]- Books
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Sportive muse. Containing, the original pieces which appeared in the Dublin Chronicle with the signature O. - Tales, riddles, epigrams, songs, &c.
O.Date: Printed in the Year M,DCC,LXX. [1770]- Books
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The oddity, an humourous poem, being a love letter from a Grub-Street poet to his sweet-heart; consisting of no less than four hundred lines, in one continued rhyme, all ending in ation; in which, only one Word is used twice throughout the whole Poem, and even that, in two different senses. - By Tantarabobus, great grandson to Perriwigdum Funnidos. -
Tantarobobus.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The garland of trials.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
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Robin Hood and the shepherd: shewing how Robin Hood, Little John and the shepherd fought a sore combat. Tune - Robin Hood and Queen Catherine.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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An elegant and useful publication for the fair sex. Adapted for families and boarding schools. On Monday, July 2, 1798, will be published, In a convenient size for the pocket, fancifully done up in coloured paper, and embellished with, 1st, a Portrait of Mrs. Hannah More, beautifully engraved by an eminent artist; 2d, a superb Coloured Plate of the present Fashionable Dresses for the Ladies. Number I. (price 1s.) of the Ladies' Monthly Museum; or, polite repository of amusement and instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the character of the British Fair. By a Society of Ladies. London: printed for the Proprietors, and sold by Messrs. Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry, and by every Bookseller in the three Kingdoms. - Communications addressed to the Editors, Post paid, will be thankfully received.
Date: 1798]- Books
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Three Belgic fables; or, hieroglyphic ridles. Containing I. The fable of the crafty statesman and subtle cardinal. II. The Passive Goose. III. The - Bull-Dog and Tooth-Drawer. Illustrated with Proper cutts.
Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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The guardian goddess of health: or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases; and of enjoying peace and happiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period of human existence: with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness. To which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, London. By James Graham, M.D. This book is of so much real importance to the health and happiness of each individual among the public, that tho' it contains more matter or reading than most two shilling pamphlets, it is ordered to be sold for only two pence; - a price very inadequate to the prime cost of the paper, printing, distribution, &c. But salus populi suprema lex est!
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1780?]- Books
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Samuel Hayes's catalogue of books, for the year 1789. (no. 332, Oxford - Street). Part II. Including Three Valuable Libraries, purchased since the First Part of the Catalogue was printed.
Hayes, Samuel, active 1779-1795.Date: 1789]- Books
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The conjurer; or Metamorphoses of Pride and Humility: an humorous Poetical Tale: Intended as a Moral Entertainment for both Sexes in their Youth, as well as a Diversion for Those in Riper Years. Decorated with 23 Copper Plates elegantly Engrav'd. From Study sometimes Thoughts shou'd be unbent, To laugh at Stories - if they're innocent.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The hampshire tragedy: shewing how a servant maid first robbed her master, and was afterwards struck dead for telling a lie. A true story. Cheap Repository.
Date: [1796]- Books
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The history of England, from the Norman conquest to the present time; or, a tragi-comic song, in four parts, to the tune of - When Troy town for ten years war, &c. AN Useful, Instructive, and Diverting Lesson for those who have not Time to read Large Books. He that delights in Hist'ry, soon may find Something to please, and edify the Mind. A true Historic Tale, when rightly told, Will please the Young, and can't displease the Old: Such is my Theme, 'tis founded on the Truth, Meant chiefly to persuade vain thoughtless Youth To let the Hist'ry of strange Lands alone, Till they get thorough Masters of their own: This my Advice -- and he that likes to look At what I've done, pays Three-Pence for this Book; And when he's learn'd the Song through ev'ry Part, And can with Ease repeat it all by Heart, If it should chance to enter in his Thought That its too dear, I'll give him back a Groat. To which is added, the multiplication table in a song. By N. Withy, of Hagley, Worcestershire.
Withy, N. (Nathan).Date: 1785- Books
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The catologue of contented cuckolds : or, a loving society of confessing brethren of the forked order, &c. who being met together in a tavern, declar'd each man his condition, resolving to be contented, and drown'd melancholly in a glass of necktar. To the tune of, Fond boy, &c. or, love's a sweet passion, &c.
Date: [1685?]- Books
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A small but choice collection of curious pieces; viz. I. The hours of love: in four Elegies: viz. Night, Morning, Noon, and Evening. II. The pleasures of a single life; or, the Miseries of Matrimony, by Sir John Dillon. III. An ode to the Honourable H-y F-x, Esq; on the Marriage of the D-s of M-r to - H-ss-y, Esq; by the late Sir C. H. W. IV. Heloisa to Abelard, by Mr. Pope, with an Answer, by Mrs. M-. V. Abelard to Eloisa, by a gentleman of Cambridge.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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The London cuckold: or, an antient citizens head well fitted with a flourishing pair of fashionable horns : by his buxome young wife, who was well back'd by a coltish spark, in the time of her husbands absence at the campaign on Hounslow-Heath. Tune of, O mother! Roger, &c. This may be printed, R.P.
Date: [1688]- Books
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The american crisis, and a letter to Sir Guy Carleton, on the murder of Captain Huddy, and the intended retaliation on Captain Asgill, of the Guards. By Thomas Paine, author Of Common sense - Rights of man-age of reason - and The decline and fall of the English system of finance.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: [1796?]