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Letter between Master Tommy and Miss Nancy Goodwill; Containing the history of their holiday amusements. Embellished with cuts.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The mirror of amusement, or, happy village. Being a new method of passing the year pleasantly and profitably, either in town or country. By Wm Wiseacre, Esq. Adorned with cuts.
Wiseacre, Wm.Date: [1780?]- Books
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Sports and pastime: or, Hocus-Pocus improv'd. Shewing, 1. To turn water into wine. 2. To convey a card out of a nut-shell. 3. To catch birds. 4. To take Eels. 5. To make sport with an Egg 6. To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief. 7. To wring Beer out of the Handle of a Knife. 8. Tricks with Tobacco-Pipes. 9. To win at Racing. 10. To know Cross or Pile by the Sound of Money. 11. To wrap one's Knuckles. 12. To make you laugh till the Tears stand in your Eyes. 13. To fox Fish. 14. A Philosoph-Experiment: 15. To cure the Tooth-Ach. 16. To bring 2 Pieces together 17. To win a Wager by feeling, 18. To take Conies. 19. To catch Wild-Ducks. 20. Sport with a Maid. 21. To make Liquor boil out of a Pot. 22. To prevent frothing Pots. 23. To Hatch-Chickens without a Hen. 24. Make it freeze by the Fire. 25. To take a String off a Pipe 26. To make good Sport. 27. To strike Chalks through a Table. 28. To convey Money away. 29. To play the wag with a Servant-Maid. 30. To make Sport with Bells. 31. Meat to seem Magotty. 32. To write invisible. 33. To cut the Blowing-Book. 34. To Engrave 35. The Egg-Box. 36. The Melting-Box. 37. The Globe-Box. 38. To cut Cloth, and make it whole again. 39. To make a Knife leap out of a Pot. 40. To take Buttons off a string 41. To cut Glass. 42. The Mosaick Rod. 43. To draw an Egg through a Ring. 44. To put Pease in your Eye. 45. Harts-Horn to make grow. 46. To write in a Dark-Night. 47. To walk on a hot Iron. 48. To eat Fire. 49. A Room to seem on fire. 50. To have a Sallad grow while the Meat roasts. 51. An Egg to fly in the air. 52. A sheet of paper call'd trouble-wit. With divers other legerdemain curiosities.
Date: [1705?]- Books
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Amusement hall; or, an easy introduction to the attainment of useful knowledge. By a lady.
Lady.Date: 1794- Books
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Swann's Amphitheatre, Livery-Street. This present Friday, January 4, 1788, will be performed a variety of rational amusements, as under. Grand entry of horses, ...
Swann's Amphitheatre (Birmingham, England)Date: 1788?]- Books
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Remarks on the prevaling custom of attending stage entertainments; also on the present taste for reading romances and novels; and on some other customs; Submitted, with a Heart overflowing with Good-Will, to the Notice and Consideration of the Professors of the Christian Name, in the different religious Societies; By John Kendall. The second edition. To which is added, remarks on subjects not noticed before.
Kendall, John, 1726-1815.Date: 1796- Books
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Gale's cabinet of knowledge; or, miscellaneous recreations. Containing moral and philosophical essays, Propositions, Natural and Metaphysical Maxims, And Observations on select subjects of general Utility. With a series of easy, entertaining, and interesting, mechanical, magnetical, & magical experiments. Including the most celebrated card deceptions ever exhibited. Together with about seven hundred serious, comical, and humorous Queries, Paradoxes, &c. &c. with pertinent and Ingenious answers. Being the Essence taken from The Lady's, Gentleman's, & Carnan's Diaries-Martin's Philosophical Magazines-Ozanam & Hooper's Recreations, &c. &c. (illustrated with Copper-Plate Engravings). To which are added a great number of Originals. Likewise, An Appendix; containing various propositions tending to prove Light and Heat two distinct beings. With some curious Definitions in optics.
Gale, John, active 18th century-19th century.Date: 1796- Books
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Mirth admit me of thy crew! Whitsuntide revel on Marlborough Common, on Wednesday in the Whitsun week, 1795.
Date: 1795]- Books
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Some arguments in favour of the intended heads of a bill for regulating the stage in the city of Dublin.
Date: 1780?]- Books
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A new song called The village crim. con. or, Snob versus Snip. To which is added The wreck.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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A seasonable check to the fury of an unfledg'd minister of the Gospel. In a letter to the Reverend Mr. T- - - - - - - A very young Glóstershire Clergyman. Written by Mr. J- - - - - - - - A very young Wiltshire Layman. Occasion'd by the former's falsly charging the latter with Atheism. In which are interspers'd some Observations on Atheism and Superstition, together with a Hint or two to the Professors of Christianity in general.
J- - - - - - - -, Mr.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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Morning amusements of the K--- of P------. Or, the modern system of regal policy, religion, justice, &c. Translated from the Paris edition, just imported.
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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By special command. For the benefit of Ireland, for near two years in Rehearsal, and will be performed at the Great Booth in College Green, on Tuesday the 7th of October, 1753, a tragi comical sarcical entertainment, not acted these three years, called the contrast between court and country, With the humours of Roger de Coverly, all the parts will be disposed of to the best advantage, with entire new dresses, all of ------Irish manufacture, ------ and other decorations suitable to the play. With a prologue and epilogue suitable to the occasion. To which will be added, a pantomine entertaiment, called the groans of the disappointed. The part caiphas to be performed by black and all black, a devise, formerly minister at Bantam, but disgraced and lately imported here. With several pieces of machinery, scenery, sinkings, flyings, bowings, cringings, entirely new in this kingdom. The dead man brought to life or D----t in a cradle. The principal characters in the play, will be printed in the bills the day of performance. The tickets given out for places, pensions and promises, by caiphas and briarius's for the last performance, but refused for being counterseits, will not be taken in the above night.
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The rival ball rooms, or, a collection of all the pieces published in favour of the new and old assembly-rooms, at Bath, during the disputes about settling the public amusements, in the autumn season, 1774.
Date: [1774?]- Books
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Papers selected from the Censor. Written by - H. Of which two were condemned to be burned by the common hangman.
H, -.Date: 1750- Books
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Healthful amusements, and ingenious exercises: or the nobleman's pocket companion in sports & recreations. Containing the art and cunning in hunting, The Names and Descriptions of the Beasts of Chace; the Choice of Hounds, &c. The managing of Horses, Racing, &c. The method of Hawking. Of Bowling. Of Tennis. Of Cock-Fighting. Of Fowling. How to take all manner of Fowls and Birds; The Art of Fishing, and sundry curious baits, and how to procure and keep them for Fishing.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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At Play-House prices, during Lent. At the New Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, tomorrow Wednesday, February 20, 1793, (for the only time this season) Alexander's feast. Written by Dryden, and set to music by Handel. With a grand miscellaneous act. End of part II. A concerto on the violin by Madame Gautherot. ...
Covent Garden Theatre.Date: [1793]- Books
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Christmas tales, for the amusement and instruction of young ladies and gentlemen in winter evenings. By Solomon Sobersides.
Sobersides, Solomon.Date: [1795]- Books
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An essay on recreations. By Vin. Perronet, A. M. Vicar of Shoreham in Kent; and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Earl Stanhope.
Perronet, Vincent, 1693-1785.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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By the appointment of the Charitable and Musical Society, at the Bull's Head in Fishamble-street. For the benefit and enlargement of poor distressed prisoners in the several Marshalseas of this city. By the authority of the Rt. Hon. Luke Gardiner, Esq; at the Theatre in Smock-Alley, on Monday next being Dec. the 17th will be presented the play of King Henry IV. With the humours of Sir John Falst Aff. All the parts as usual. To which will be added, the what d'ye call it. With several entertainments of dancing.
Charitable Musical Society (Dublin, Ireland)Date: 1739]- Books
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Gale's cabinet of knowledge; or miscellaneous recreations: containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural and metaphysical maxims, And Observations on select subjects of general Utility; with a series of easy, entertaining, and interesting mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments: including the most celebrated card deceptions ever exhibited. Together with about Seven Hundred Serious, Comic, and Humorous Queries, Paradoxes, &c. &c. with pertinent and ingenious answers, comprising the essence of The Lady's, Gentleman's, and Carnan's Diaries,-Martin's Philosophical Magazines,-Ozanam and Hooper's Recreations, &c. &c. (illustrated with copper-plate engravings.) To which is added a great number of originals. Likewise an appendix; containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings; With some curious definitions in optics.
Gale, John, active 18th century-19th century.Date: M,DCCC. [1800]- Books
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Reflections on a favourite amusement.
Law, William, 1686-1761.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The sportsman, farrier and shoeing-smiths new guide. being the substance of the works of the late Charles Vial de St. Bell. ... to which is prefixed a short account of his life, ... Also, an appendix, containing valuable extracts, from the most approved veterinary writers. By John Lawrence. ...
Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753-1793.Date: [1796]- Books
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At Play House prices, during Lent. New Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb 27, 1793, will be repeated (for the only time this season) the first grand selection. In which will be introduced captivity, a serious air, by Mrs. Crouch, (supposed to be written by an unfortunate Queen during her consinement). ...
Covent Garden Theatre.Date: [1793]