9 results filtered with: Short stories, English - Early works to 1800
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Miscellanies, in verse and prose. Written by the Right Honourable Joseph Addison Esq;
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.Date: M.DCC.XX.V. [1725]- Books
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The Tatler. By the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; In two volumes. ...
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.Date: 1777- Books
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Winter-evenings entertainment. Consisting of the best novels and histories that have been written in most languages being such, as at the same time they most agreeably amuse, enlarge the ideas of the mind, set virtue before the eyes of the reader in all its loveliness, and excite an almost irresistible emulation of great and good actions.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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A short story: interspersed with poetry. By a young lady. In two volumes. ...
Young lady.Date: 1800- Books
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Sline in an uproar; or The bastard goose. Being particulars of the labor of Molly Mansa, who was delivered of a miraculous goose, at Sline, near Lancaster, on Saturday evening, the 11th of November, 1784, carried on and conducted under the management of her mother and a pretended nurse, as a villanous means to obtain money.
Date: [1785?]- Books
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The novelist: or, tea-table miscellany. Containing the select novels of Dr. Croxall; with other polite tales, and pieces of modern entertainment. ... Ornamented with cuts. In two volumes. ...
Date: 1766- Books
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The cracker; or, flashes of merriment: a collection of humourous fire-works never play'd-off before. By Jeremy Squib, engineer.
Squib, Jeremy.Date: [1770?]- Books
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The London tale. By the author of The tale of a nettle.
Author of The tale of a nettle.Date: MDCCX [1710]- Books
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Winter's wit; or, Fun for cold weather. Being a new and valuable collection of stories, songs and jests. Calculated for general entertainment, and adapted to the taste of both sexes, and all ages. Comprizing, I. A select collection of authentic historical narratives of interesting events, and many very laughable stories. II. A great number of the most celebrated songs including those lately sung at the theatres and public gardens. III. A variety of brilliant jests, witty reporting queer sayings, comic jokes, and droit remarks together with Bulls, Blunders and Humbugs of English, Scotch, and Irish manufacture.
Date: [1780?]