55 results filtered with: Wit and humor
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Mother midnight's comical pocket-book: Or, A bone for the criticks. Being a sure and certain cure for the hip. Containing the nicest and largest dish of novelties, that ever was seen-heard-smelt-or tasted; carefully cook'd-up by mother midnight's merry grandson; containing nothing but originals, all very humorous, prodigious satyrical, and quite uncommon; informing the publick, that this dish of dishes was wrote in an uncommon place, at an uncommon time, by an uncommon hand, Humphrey Humdrum, Esq;
Humdrum, Humphrey.Date: [1754?]- Books
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The swindler a comedy.
Date: 1785- Books
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Farrago.
Plowden, Pilgrim.Date: 1733 [1734?]- Books
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The Festival of wit. or The small talker. Selected by G-K- summer resident at Windsor.
Date: 1788- Pictures
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A man whose physiognomy expresses, according to Lavater, openness of mind, taste, a happy memory, and wit. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: c. 1789Reference: 28741i- Pictures
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A man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.
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Left eyes of two men. Drawing, c. 1794.
Date: 1794?Reference: 30794i- Books
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Reflections upon learning. By Monsieur de Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray. Made English from the Paris edition, by Mr. Ozell. To which is added, an essay concerning humour in comedy, by Mr. Congreve.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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The celebrated Mrs. Pilkington's jests: or the cabinet of wit and humour. To which is now first added, a great variety of bons mots, witticisms, and anecdotes of the inimitable Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. The whole forming The most brilliant Collection of quaint Jokes, facetious Puns, smart Repartees, entertaining Tales in Verse and Prose, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Conundrums, &c. &c. now extant.
Pilkington, Laetitia, 1712-1750.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
Z dílny Aeskulapovy : Příběhy veselé i vážné pro poučení a pobavení zdravotníků i laiků / Sylvín, [pseud.] ; [Illustrated by Ladislav Rada].
Kácl, Karel, 1900-1986.Date: 1970- Books
The strange case of the walking corpse : a chronicle of medical mysteries, curious remedies, and bizarre but true healing folklore / Nancy Butcher.
Butcher, Nancy.Date: [2004], ©2004- Books
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The festival of wit; or, small talker: being a collection of bon mots, anecdotes, &c. of the most exalted characters; procured and selected by G--- K---, summer resident at Windsor.
Date: 1800- Books
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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical, in prose and verse. In four volumes. The fifth edition, corrected from the errors of the former im pressions [sic]. With the life and character of Mr. Brown, and a key to all his writings. Adorn'd with cuts.
Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.Date: 1720- Books
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Les gaietés de la médecine / Dr. Garrulus ; avec une preface du E. Monin.
Date: [1896]- Books
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Le compagnon sage & ingenieux, anglois & françois, ou recueil des bons mots, ... Par Mr. Boyer, ...
Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.Date: 1741- Books
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Professional anecdotes, or, Ana of medical literature.
Date: 1825- Books
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Laugh and be fat: or, an antidote against melancholy. Containing, I. Great variety of comical intrigues and stories, in town and country. ... Written by the most ingenious authors of the age.
Date: 1741- Books
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The nut-Cracker. Containing an agreeable variety of well-season'd jests, epigrams, epitaphs, &c. Collected from the most sprightly wits of the present age. Together with Such Instructions as will enable any Man to tell a Story with a good Grace, and crack a Nut without losing the Kernel. With Other Particulars equally Useful and Entertaining, and for which the gentle, kind, and courteous Reader, will be pleased to look over the following Pages. Published with the Approbation of the Learned in all Faculties. by Ferdinando Foot, Esq;
Date: M.DCC.LI. [1751]- Pictures
Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
Byam, W.Date: 1818Reference: 27730i- Books
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The festival of wit; or, small talker, being a collection of bon mots, anecdotes, &c. of the most exalted characters; procured and selected by G--- K---, summer resident at Windsor.
Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Laugh and be fat; or food for all parties: the spangled lord, country 'squire, jolly sailor, hearty farmer, merry soldier, John the footman, and dolly the dairy maid. A general collection of the best jests, Calculated to banish Sorrow, relieve Care, and make the Heart Merry: The Whole containing all the wit of the present Times, and suited to all Capacities that are disposed for Mirth and Good-Humour.
Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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The new British universal jester, or the wit's companion, ...
Date: [1788]- Books
Rymowanki lekarskie czyli Wierszyki nieraz frywolne i sprośne / Jerzy Supady.
Supady, Jerzy.Date: 2001- Books
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Le compagnon sage & ingenieux Anglois & François. Ou recueil de l'esprit des personnes illustres, tant anciennes que modernes: ... Troisiéme edition; corrigée, augmentée, &c. A l'usage des ecoles Françoises: par Mr. Boyer, ...
Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.Date: 1707- Books
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Laugh and be fat: or, an antidote against melancholy. Containing, I. Great variety of comical intrigues and stories, in town and country. II. Poems upon various Occasions. III. Witty epigrams and Whims. IV. Epitaphs serious and comical. V. Pleasant Songs and Ballads. Written by the most ingenious authors of the age.
Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LIII. [1753]