The triumph of wit; or, ingenuity display'd in its perfection: being the newest and most useful academy. In three parts Part I Containing Variety of excellent Poems. Pastorals, Satyrs, Dialogues, Epigrams, Anagrams, Acrosticks, choice Letters with their Answers, Epitaphs, Poe[tr]ies, Titles of Honour and Directions, Complemental Expressions and Addresses: Also Directions relating to Love and Business, and the newest, best, and exactest Collection of Choice Songs. Part II. Containing the whole Art and Mystery of Love in all its nicest Intrigues and curious Particulars, promising wonderful success as well in a happy Choice, as in the great Affair of Courtship to either Sex; with the Description and Anatomy of perfect Beauty. Part III. Containing the Mystery and Art of Canting, with the Original and Present Management thereof, and the Ends to which it serves, and is employed. Illustrated with Poems, Songs, and various Intrigues in the Canting Language, with the Explanation, &c. To which is Added, Instructions for Dancing, with Musical notes[.]
- J. S. (John Shirley), active 1680-1702.
- Date:
- 1702
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Publication/Creation
London : printed by J. Wilde, for N. Boddington at the Golden Ball in Duck lane, 1702.
Physical description
[8],220p.,plate ; 120.
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Edition
The fourth edition, with new and large additions in every part.
References note
ESTC T174366
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.