10 results filtered with: Wit and humor - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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The merry jester. Containing great variety of comical jests, keen waggeries, smart repartees, funny tales, brilliant bon mots, queer puns, whimsical bulls, merry humbugs, droll sayings, wonderful stories, strange whims, humourous frolicks, polite witticisms and strokes of humour. By Robert Baker.
Baker, Robert, active 1766.Date: [1773?]- Books
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The Wag: or, Life of humour, and the soul of whim. Containing, jests, epigrams, epitaphs, repartees, bon mots, bulls, quibbles, puns, jokes, gibes, gambols, and other flashes of merriment, to banish melancholy, dissipate gloomy thoughts, and set the table on a roar. Being the second part of the Merry Andrew.
Date: 1773- Books
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The Merry jester, or, The rakes pocket companion. Containing a collection of comical and diverting jests. To which is added the fifteen plagues of a maidenhead, and the virgin's dream.
Date: Printed in the year 1771- Books
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Laugh when you can; or, the monstrous droll jester. Containing the best collection of jests, Merry Tales, Humorous Jokes, Irish Bulls, Comical Humbugs, bon Mots, &c. Ever Published. To which is added, The benevolent jew, as recited at the Royalty Theatre.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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The Merry pranks of Tom Tram, son-in-law to Mother Winter To which is added, his comical jesis, odd conceits, and pleasant tales, being very delightful to read.
Date: 1750?]- Books
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A Continuation of the humorous effects of cross-reading the news-papers.
Date: 1770?]- Books
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The Merry tales or the wise men of Gotham.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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The Merry tales of the wise men of Gotham. To which is added, a collection of jests.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The Merry jester, or, Convivial companion; a collection of wit and mirth, suited to all companies, and adapted to every capacity. Containing the best jests, brilliant repartees, smart jokes, funny tales, comical stories, merry sayings. To which are added, roll conundrums, select epigrams, curious riddles, puzzling rebusses. The whole compiled for the choice spirits and high geniusses.
Date: [1785?]- Books
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Tim Grin's jests, or The new London joker; Containing the greatest variety of entertainment for a summer's day, or, Winter's evening. Ever produced to the public. The whole comprised to raise innocent mirth, and improve the social hours. Consisting of a festival of wit for the choice spirits and high geniuses of the present age. Intended to banish care and enliven the mind, make a merry heart and chearful countenance. Many of which are the droll sayings of the first rate buks, being of itself a library of laughter.
Grin, Tim.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]