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Date: c.1930sReference: SA/PHC/D.1/10Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)- Books
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Will Whimsical's Miscellany.
Whimsical, Will.Date: [1799]- Books
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Frobisher's new select collection of epitaphs; Humorous, Whimsical, Moral, & Satyrical.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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The Whimsical repository, or General receptacle. Of wit, humour & entertainment; containing ... for the year ...
Date: [1774]-- Books
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Gasconado the great: A Tragi - Comi, Political, Whimsical opera, As it was intended For the Entertainment of the public, But rejected by the Managers of both Theatres.
Worsdale, James, 1692?-1767.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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Real characters, and Genuine Anecdotes, Political, Polite, Gallant, Theatrical, Intriguing, Prudish, Coquettish, Whimsical, Amorous, Ridiculous, Literary, &c. &c. Interspersed with some Fugitive Miscellaneous Pieces of the Best Modern Authors and Poets.
Date: 1769- Books
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Attic wit; or, a Medley of Humour: Containing an Agreeable Variety of Bon Mots, Jokes, & Repartees; Being Humorous, Whimsical, Laughable, Novel and Sentimental; In Prose and Verse. Designed To promote Mirth, Jocularity, and Chearfulness, in in Both Sexes.
Date: 1791- Books
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The festival of humour; or, banquet of wit. Being a collection of the best anecdotes, repartees, Bon Mots, Epigrams, Whimsical and Laughable Adventures, Epitaphs, Curious Love Letters, &c. &c. &c. Calculated at once to banish care, and promote mirth and harmony.
Date: 1800- Books
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The jolly companion; or, a cure for care: being a curious collection of songs, cantatas, &c. Whimsical, Political, Satirical, Critical, Serious, and Sentimental; calculated to please every body, and offend no body. Adapted to well-known and approved tunes. To which is added Toasts and Sentiments.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Davenport's exquisite effusions or wit and humour. Being a judicious collection of laughable tales, Extraordinary Adventures, Odd Characters, Out-of-The-Way Occurrences Whimsical Circumstances, Droll Transactions, Extravagancies in Love and Friendship, witty sayings, select anecdotes, and other notable displays of human genius. Forming vol. II of the Care Killer.
Date: [1795-1802?]- Books
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Intrigue in a cloyster. A farce of two acts. By Thomas Horde, jun. Esq. Author of Leander and Hero,-And Zelida; Tragedies. Damon and Phebe; An Opera. Dramatic Love,-Disappointed Villany,-The Emperick,-As the World Goes,-Paradise of Fools,-Pretended Puritan,-It was Right at the Last,-The Whimsical Serenade,-And The Female Pedant.
Horde, Thomas, active 1769-1784.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Nature will prevail. A farce of two acts. By Thomas Horde, jun. Esq. Author of Leander and Hero, and Zelida, tragedies; Damon and Phebe, an Opera; Dramatic Love, Disappointed Villany, The Empirick, AS The World Goes, Paradise of Fools, Pretended Puritan, IT Was Right At The Last, The Whimsical Serenade, The Female Pedant, and, Intrigue in a cloyster, entertainments.
Horde, Thomas, active 1769-1784.Date: 1784-5 [i.e. 1785]- Books
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The Whimsical jester; or, Something new; Calculated for the amusement and instruction of persons of every description. Containing the most lively salies of wit ever displayed through the medium of frolicsome jokes, smart repartees, pleasant memoirs, droll anecdotes, strange oddities, humorous adventures, noble sentiments, &c. &c. The whole written in a style much superior to works under similar titles.
Date: [1798?]- Books
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The female pedant: a farce of two acts. By Thomas Horde, jun. Esq. At the Grammar School in Stow, Gloucestershire; Author of Leander and Hero,-And Zelida; Tragedies. Damon and Phebe; An Opera. Dramatic Love,-Disappointed Villainy,-The Emperick,-As the World Goes,-Paradise of Fools,-Pretended Puritan,-It was Right at the Last,-And The Whimsical Serenade.
Horde, Thomas, active 1769-1784.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A label without being a libel against truth, Or any Libellous Assertions Libelling Honour and Honesty. Or, Old News newly reviv'd, or brought to Life as New. Or, A Whimsical News-Book on Old Matters Dress'd as 'twere out, or in an Old Thread-Bare Coat Trimm'd up in Second Mourning, and New Napt with Foreign and Domestick Advices.
Date: 1728- Books
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The naval songster, or Jack Tar's chest of conviviality, for 1798. Containing a collection of the best songs that ever were written, Composed, Invented, OR Manufactured BY Ingenuity, Calculated To Promote Conviviality And Merriment, With Four Dozen Monstrous Good Sentiments, New, From The Idea-Pot, And AN Introduction, Comical, Serious, And Whimsical, with a full length portrait of a Jack Tar. Embellished with a plate of Jack Capering Ashore.
Date: [1798?]- Books
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The muse's vagaries; or, the merry mortal's companion. Consisting of facetious tales, satirical jokes, diverting letters, Comical Songs, Humorous Epigrams, Whimsical Wills, Epitaphs, &c. &c. &c. &c. The whole calculated to create Mirth and good Humour; to cure the Spleen and expel Vapours; drive away Sorrow; and increase the Diversion of all the Merry Fellows, Honest Hearts, and Jovial Souls round about the Wrekin. By Sir Solomon Gundy, Knt. and Margery Merrypin, spinster.
Gundy, Solomon, Sir.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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Love in a mystery: a farce of two acts. By Thomas Horde, junior, Esq. Author of Leander and Hero, and Zelida, Tragedies; Damon and Phebe, an Opera; Ramatic Love, (dedicated to the late David Garrick, Esq.) Disappointed Villainy-The Empirick-As the World Goes-The Paradise of Fools-The Pretended Puritan-It was Right at the Last-The Whimsical Serenade-The Female Pedant-Intrigue in a Cloyster-And Nature will prevail, Entertainments.
Horde, Thomas, active 1769-1784.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The whimsical jester, or, Rochester in high glee. Containing great variety of diverting jests, Entertaining Stories, Pleasing Tales, Comical Bulls, Smart Repartees, Keen Waggeries, Brilliant Bon Mots, Quaint Sayings, Queer Puns, Wonderful Frolicks, Droll Narrations, Merry Adventures, Puzzling Conundrums, Humorous Riddles, Funny Rebusses, Whimsical Epigrams, Strange Epitaphs, Odd Letters, &c. exhibited upon The Great Stage of the World, by those Choice Spirits and Droll Characters, who excite mirth improve the Understanding, and give a Relish to Life. The Whole being designed, To banish Sorrow, chear the Heart, enliven the Countenance, quicken the Senses, and procure Mirth and good Humour.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Colley Cibber's whimsical wager.
Date: [1785?]- Books
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The book of oddities: or, agreeable variety for town and country; containing, an uncommon collection of the most curious stories, which may be valued for their Being Queer, Odd, Strange, Amazing, Whimsical, Comic, Absurd, Out O'Th'way, And Unaccountable. Designed to promote mirth, and excite the wonder and astonishment of all the sons and daughters of Adam. The whole calculated to make the Countryman state, the Citizen laugh, and the Courtier Grin: Adapted both to the Sultry Days of Autumn and the Gloomy Nights of Winter. My Articles in Order thus I range; Miraculous and Quee, and odd, and strange: And other Thing with these collateral, As whimsical and supernatural.
Broadgrin, Toby.Date: 1791- Books
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The book of oddities: or, agreeable variety for town and country. Containing, an uncommon collection of the most curious stories, which may be valued for their Being Queer, Odd, Strange, Amazing, Whimsical, Comic, Absurd, Out O'Th'way, And Unaccountable. Designed To promote Mirth, and excite the Wonder and Astonishment of all the Sons and Daughters of Adam. The whole calculated to make the Countryman stare, the Citizen laugh, and the Courtier grin: Adapted both to the Sultry Days of Autumn, and the Gloomy Nights of Winter. By Sir Toby Broadgrin, Knt.
Broadgrin, Toby.Date: 1790- Books
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The theatre of mirth; or, fun a-la-mode. Containing great Variety of Diverting Jests, Entertaining Stories, Pleasing Tales, Comical Bulls, Smart Repartees, Keen Waggeries, Brilliant Bon Mots, Quaint Sayings, Queer Puns, Wonderful Frolicks, Droll Narrations, Merry Adventures, Puzzling Conundrums, Humourous Riddles, Funny Rebusses, Whimsical Epigrams, Strange Epitaphs, Odd Letters, &c. Exhibited upon The Great Stage of the World, by those Choice Spirits and Droll Characters, who excite Mirth, improve the Understanding, and give a Relish to Life. The Whole being design'd To banish Sorrow, chear the Heart, enliven the Countenance, quicken the Senses, and procure Mirth and good Humour.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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The theatre of fun, or, Roderick Random in high glee. Containing great Variety of Diverting Jests, Entertaining Stories, Pleasing Tales, Comical Bulls, Smart Repartees, Keen Waggeries, Brillant Bon Mois, Quaint Sayings, Queer Puns, Wonderful Frolicks, Droll Narrations, Merry Adventures, Puzzling Conundrums, Humourous Riddles, Funny Rebusses, Whimsical Epigrams, Strange Epitaphs, Odd Letters, &c. Exhibited upon The Great Stage of the World, by those Choice Spirits and Droll Characters, who excite Mirth, improve the Understanding, and give a Relish to Life. The Whole being designed, To banish Sorrow, chear the Heart, enliven the Countenance, quicken the Senses, and procure Mirth and good Humour.
Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Archives and manuscripts
`An Appeal Presented to the Faculty of Medicine, Utopia'
Date: c.1930Reference: SA/PHC/D.1/10/6Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)