32 results filtered with: Riddles - Early works to 1800
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The masquerade, a collection of new enigmas logogriphs charades rebusses queries and transpositions
Date: 1800- Books
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The True trial of understanding: Or Wit newly reviv'd, being a book of riddles, adorned with variety of pictures, new riddles make both wit & mirth the price a penny, yet not half the worth. By S.M.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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The true trial of understanding: or wit newly reviv'd, being a book of riddles, adorned with variety of pictures, New Riddles make both Wit & Mirth The Price a Penny, yet not half the Worth. By S. M.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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The nuts crack'd; being an answer to the Court puzzle: or a choice collection of conundrums.
Date: 1745- Books
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Winter-evening entertainments; in two parts. Containing, I. Ten pleasant and delightful relations of many rare and notable accidents and occurences; with brief remarks upon every one. II. Fifty ingenious riddles, with their explanations, and useful observations and morals upon each. The whole enlivened with above threescore pictures, for the better illustration of every story and riddle. Excellently accommodated to the fancies of old or young, and exceeding useful to advance chearful society and conversation. By Robert Burton.
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: 1737- Books
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A Key to the witling: Being proper answers to a compleat collection of the most celebrated conundrums now in vogue among people of high taste.
Date: M,DCC,L. [1750]- Books
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Food for the mind; or, A new riddle-book: Compiled for the use of the great and the little good boys and girls in England, Scotland, and Ireland. By John the Gaint. Killer, Esq.
John the-Giant-Killer.Date: Anno 1797- Books
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The muse in good humour: or, a collection of the best poems, comic tales, choice fables, enigmas, &c. From the most eminent poets. With some Originals. Part I. Containing, Bashful Ben. The Ladies Looking Glass. The Merchant's Tale. Desire and Possession. The Eachentment. The Wife of Bath. Truth and Falshood. Simple Simon. The imperfect Enjoyment. The English Padlock. The Vision. Middle aged Man and his two Mistresses. Sauntring Jark and idle Joan. Baueis and Philemon. The Original of Matrimony. Susannah and the two Elders. Female Virtue. Love Disarmed. Delia's Wedding-Night. Vertumnus and Pomona. The Conscientious Keeper. The Fox and Dragon. The Button-Hole. The Elbow Chair. Love attones for little Crimes. Saying and Doing are two Things. Woman's Logicle. The Substitute Father. To Cloe. A Fragment. The Exorcism. The Widow's Excuse. Falling in Love. Balaam's Pedigree. The Happy Night. A Game at Put.
Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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The Norfolk riddle, explain it if you can.
Date: 1733?]- Books
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Solutions to the enigmas, charades, transpositions, and queries.
Date: 1791- Books
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Delights for young men and maids. Containing I. Near an hundred riddles, with pictures and a key to each. II. Two true-lover's knots. ...
Date: [1725?]- Books
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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing : In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects: viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drollerys, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, severall poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters a la mode. 7. Games and sports now us'd at this day among the gentry of England, &c. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. The 3d edition with many new additions, by J.C.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: MDCLXXI. [1671]- Books
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The edge taken off: or the conundrums and home-clinches of the whet-stone unriddled. To which are added, some fresh conundrums, and their answers.
Date: [1745]- Books
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Wit a-la-mode. Or, pithy questions to prevent dulness in modern conversation. Humbly Dedicated to all the Coxcombs in the Cities of London and Westminster. By Jasper Quibble, Esq; Doctor of Nonsense in Covent-Garden. My Lines are dull; tho' they may chance to hit, When they're enliven'd by my Reader's Wit.
Quibble, Jasper.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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Wit newly revived. Being a book of riddles. Set forth For the Trial of Wit, and Diversion of all Persons of either Sex, to create Mirth and Merriment. Many new Riddles, Both of Wit and Mirth, The Price a Penny, Yet not Half the Worth.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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A whetstone for dull wits; or a poesy of new and ingenious riddles.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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The trial of wit: or, a new-riddle-book. Some of which were never before published. Composed for the benefit of all those who desire to try their wit, by reading these merry questions and answers.
Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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A New riddle book, or Whetstone for dull wits.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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A Whetstone for dull wits; or A poesy of new and ingenious riddles.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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The ænigmatical repository; or, new fund of amusement, for young ladies and gentlemen. ... All written by Charles Crinkum, ...
Crinkum, Charles.Date: 1772- Books
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The masquerade. A collection of new enigmas, logogriphs, charades, rebusses, queries and transpositions. ...
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The diarian miscellany: consisting of all the useful and entertaining parts, both mathematical and poetical, extracted from the Ladies' diary, from the beginning of that work in the year 1704, down to the end of the year 1773. With many additional solutions and improvements. In five volumes. By Cha. Hutton, F.R.S. professor of mathematics in the Royal Military Academy.
Date: 1775- Books
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Delights for young men and maids: containing 1. Near an hundred riddles, with pictures, and a key to each. 2. Two true lovers knots. ...
Date: [1754?]- Books
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A new riddle book, or a whetstone for dull wits.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus : or, a sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse, or writing. In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love are made easie in the following subjects. I. The art of reasoning, a new logick. 2. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 3. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 4. Apollo and Orpheus severall love-songs, epigrams, drolleries, and other verses. 5. Cyprian Goddess, description of beauty. 6. The muses Elizium, severall poeticall fictions. 7. The perfect inditer, letters ala-mode. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's [sic] Key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabeticall table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. By I.C.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: 1655