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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks Tales from two hemispheres https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3071
eBooks Genuine letters from a gentleman to a young lady his pupil: ... Written some years since. Now first revised and published with notes and illustrations, by Thomas Hull, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4970
eBooks The Artifice: A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's company of comedians. By Mrs. Cent-Livre. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3866
eBooks The martial review: or, a general history of the late wars; together with the definitive treaty, and some reflections on the probable consequences of the peace. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5348
eBooks The wanderer: a poem. In five canto's. By Richard Savage, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5202
eBooks Zorinski: a play, in three acts: as performed at the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market. By Thomas Morton, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4312
eBooks The faerie queene: disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3200
eBooks Dr Goldsmith's history of Greece, abridged, for the use of schoolsGrecian history. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5324
eBooks An answer to the L--d H----sham's speech: By Daniel D'Foe. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3338
eBooks Love in a village; a comic opera: As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3347
eBooks Prospects on the Rubicon: or, an investigation into the causes and consequences of the politics to be agitated at the meeting of Parliament. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3718
eBooks A true character of Mr. Pope https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5132
eBooks Cecilia: or memoirs of an heiress. By the author of Evelina. In five volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4866
eBooks Village politics: Addressed to all the mechanics, journeymen, and day labourers, in Great Britain. By Will Chip, a country carpenter. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4612
eBooks Pastorals: After the simple manner of Theocritus. By Mr. Purney. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5099
eBooks An address to the subscribers for the History and antiquities of the county palatine of Durham: with a sketch of the materials from whence the intended publication is compiled. By William Hutchinson, F.A.S https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4833
eBooks Select letters between the late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough, ... and others; including a sketch of the manners, laws, &c. of the republic of Venice, ... The whole now first published from original copies, by Mr. Hull. In two volumes: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4863
eBooks Additions to the works of Alexander Pope: Esq. Together with many original poems and letters, of cotemporary [sic] writers, never before published. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3652
eBooks The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes: of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; ... Intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; ... Written ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4558
eBooks Pharnaces: an opera. Altered from the Italian. By Thomas Hull. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3566
eBooks Letter from David Hume, Esq. to the author of The delineation of the nature and obligation of morality https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3361
eBooks Remarks on the composition, use, and effects of the extract of lead of Mr. Goulard, and of his vegeto-mineral water. By G. Arnaud, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5605
eBooks King Stephen's watch: A tale, founded on fact. By the author of the Heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knt. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3415
eBooks Poems, by a gentleman https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5079
eBooks The peerage of Great Britain and Ireland: including the extinct, with a genealogical and historical account of each noble family. Embellished with a series of historical prints ... By Robert Pollard, F.S.A. .Vo 1.1. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4883
eBooks London and the vanity of human wishes https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3199
eBooks A letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to his constituents: upon his late resignation; with the correspondences between the Secretaries of War and him, relative to his return to America. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3342
eBooks A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands: [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5154
eBooks The shepherdess of the Alps: a comic opera, in three acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3609
eBooks A General history of trade: and especially consider'd as it respects the British commerce, as well at home, as to all parts of the world. With essays upon the improvement of our trade in particular. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3543
eBooks Songs in the comic opera of Tom Thumb the Great. As it is now performing at the Microcosm near Stephen's-StreetTom Thumb. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4200
eBooks The school for lovers: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. By William Whitehead, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4164
eBooks Athelstan: A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3569
eBooks The roguish miller; or, nothing got by cheating: A true ballad https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5468
eBooks Evenings at home; or, the juvenile budget opened: Consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces, ... [pt.6] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4999
eBooks Works. EnglishPliny's epistles in ten books/ done into English by several hands https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3180
eBooks Lucius Junius Brutus: or, the expulsion of the Tarquins: an historical play. By Hugh Downman. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4604
eBooks The battle of Lora: A poem. With some fragments written in the Erse, or Irish language, by Ossian, the son of Fingal. Translated into English verse by Mr. Derrick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3457
eBooks A description of the Lake at Keswick: (and the adjacent country) in Cumberland. Communicated in a letter to a friend. By a late popular writer. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5460
eBooks An English accidence: or, abstract of grammar; for the use of those who, without making grammar a study, wish to speak and write correctly. With rules for reading prose and verse. By the Rev. Dr. John Trusler. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4386
eBooks Clementina: a tragedy, as it is perform'd with universal applause at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5106
eBooks The rights of infants; or, the imprescriptable right of mothers to such a share of the elements as is sufficient to enable them to suckle and bring up their young in a dialogue between the aristocracy and a mother of children. To which are added, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4495
eBooks A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands: [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4978
eBooks Liberty asserted: A tragedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Dennis. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4059
eBooks The observer: being a collection of moral, literary and familiar essays. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5007
eBooks The four seasons, and other poems. By James ThomsonSeasons https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3549
eBooks An historical view of the Irish stage: from the earliest period down to the close of the season 1788. Interspersed with theatrical anecdotes, ... In two volumes. ... By Robert Hitchcock, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4478
eBooks The coffee-house politician: or, the justice caught in his own trap. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn Fields. Written by Mr. Fielding.Rape upon rape https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3320
eBooks An essay of health and long life: By George Cheyne, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4355
eBooks An account of the ancient division of the English nation into hundreds and tithings: the happy effects of that excellent institution; ...Intended as an appendix to several tracts on national defence, &c. By Granville Sharp. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5391