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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 adventures of Jack Wander. Written by himself. Interspers'd with some humorous anecdotes, and original memoirs.
Wander, Jack.Date: [1766?]- Books
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The Wedding. An humorous parody, on Alexander's feast. By Mr. Dryden. To which is added, the newsmonger.
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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The adventures of Don Quixote, De la Mancha, and his humorous squire, Sancho Panca. In two vols.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616Date: [ca. 1795]- Books
One lump or two? : a humorous story of one man's fight against testicular cancer / Darren Couchman.
Couchman, Darren.Date: 2008- Books
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The cabinet of true Attic wit: or aldermen's jokes. Containing the jests, Bon Mots, Witticisms, humorous and extraordinary Anecdotes of the most celebrated personages of this century. Wherein is given the lively jeux-d'esprit of the first ladies of the age. Also, a collection of new toasts and sentiments.
Date: 1783- Books
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The royal chase; a poem. Wherein are described some humorous incidents of a hunt at Windsor, The Whole including an address to his R----y----l H----gh----ss the P----e of W----.
Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The wind in the east: or, pri'thee friend keep back. An ominous warning. A humorous ballad. By a sailor on board the S---ness fleet.
Sailor on Board the S---ness Fleet.Date: [1743]- Books
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The bucks delight being a collection of humorous songs, sung at the several societies of choice spirits, ...
Date: [1780?]- Books
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A rhapsody, to E***** B**** Esq. By J. Sharpe. Ornamented with a humorous print, of "the swinish multitude."
Sharpe, J., active 1792.Date: in the Year 1792- Books
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Miscellaneous works, serious and humorous: in verse and prose. Design'd for the amusement of the fair sex.
Boyse, Samuel, 1708-1749.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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Monstrous good songs, sentiments, and toasts, humorous medlies, cantatas, catches & glees, for the year 1794. As sung at all public places of amusement dedicated to the sons of Mirth and Jollity. Embellished with several originals.
Date: [1794]- Books
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The British antidote to Caledonian poison: consisting of the most humorous satirical political prints, for the year 1762. ...
Date: [1763]- Books
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The charms of melody. Being a select collection of the newest and most approved humorous, drinking, & loyal songs.
Date: 1776- Books
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Thirty-three years' adventures in bookland : including walks in the humorous avenues of library life / by David Cuthbertson.
Cuthbertson, David, 1856-1935.Date: 1910- Books
The works ... consisting of essays, humorous, moral and literary : with his life, written by himself / [Benjamin Franklin].
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: 1852- Books
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The taffydeis. An humorous heroic poem. In honour of St. David and the Leek. Dedicated to Bumbalio. By Hywgi ap Englyn Margonwc, son, in the ninth score degree, of Camber ap brute the trojan.
Hywgi ap Englyn Margonwc.Date: 1747- Books
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Virtue triumphant, and pride abased; in the humorous history of Dickey Gotham, and Doll Clod; digested from antient tractates, and the records of those memorable families, now extant at Addle Hall, in Nottinghamshire. By R.P. Biographer. ...
R. P., Biographer.Date: 1753- Books
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Mexican letters. Containing humorous and satirical observations on the Manners, Customs, Religion, and Policy of the English, French, Spaniards, and Americans, Interspersed with a great Variety of Interesting and entertaining Anecdotes, illustrated by Moral and other suitable Reflections. Compiled from original letters. In two volumes . ...
Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Pictures
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A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 7 April 1806Reference: 854i- Books
I will never forget : a daughter's story of her mother's arduous and humorous journey through dementia / Elaine C. Pereira.
Pereira, Elaine C.Date: 2012- Ephemera
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Anybody ill? : (I'm Doctor Quack) : the popular humorous song / music by Alfred Lee ; sung by Alf. Walker.
Lee, Alfred.Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]- Pictures
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Bottles labelled with humorous quotations comparing healthy lifestyle with excessive drinking; representing consequences of alcohol abuse. Colour lithograph by Pekárek, 1952.
Pekárek.Date: Prosinec 1952Reference: 663783i- Books
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Memoirs and adventures of a flea; in which are interspersed many humorous characters and anecdotes. In two volumes. In Two Volumes. ...
Date: Printed for T. Axtell. MDCCLXXXV. [1785]