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eBooks The discovery: or, the squire turn'd ferret: An excellent new ballad. To the tune of High boys! up go we; Chevy Chase; or what you please. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3669
eBooks The law of Lombardy: a tragedy: as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Written by Robert Jephson, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4012
eBooks A bold stroke for a husband: a comedy, as acted at the Theatre Royal, in Covent Garden. By Mrs. Cowley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4458
eBooks Memoirs of Count Tariff, &c https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4333
eBooks Fun: a parodi-tragi-comical satire: As it was to have been perform'd at the Castle-Tavern, Pater-Noster-Row, on Thursday, February 13, 1752, but suppressed, by a special order from the Lord-Mayor ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4051
eBooks The Vauxhall affray: or, the Macaronies defeated : being a compilation of all the letters, squibs, &c. on both sides of that dispute. With an introductory dedication to the Hon. Tho. Lyttleton, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5067
eBooks Phillis at court: a comic opera of three acts. As it is now performing, with great applause, at the Theatre-Royal in Crow-Street, Dublin. The music by Signior Tomaso Giordani. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4789
eBooks Poems by Mr. Jerningham: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5203
eBooks Prose on several occasions: accompanied with some pieces in verse. By George Colman. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5304
eBooks Family secrets: literary and domestic. By Mr. Pratt. In five volumes. [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4706
eBooks An essay on the treaty of commerce with France: with necessary expositions. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4426
eBooks Some reasons why the practice of inoculation ought to be introduced into the town of Bury at present https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5627
eBooks An ode upon dedicating a building, and erecting a statue, to Shakespeare, at Stratford upon Avon. By D.G https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4084
eBooks An elegy on a pile of ruins: By J. Cunningham. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5272
eBooks The Rambler.: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3431
eBooks Henry: in four volumes. By the author of Arundel. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4965
eBooks The school for guardians: A comedy. As it is performing at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3561
eBooks The grumbletonians: or, the dogs without-doors. A tale. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5101
eBooks An history of the earth: and animated nature: by Oliver Goldsmith. In eight volumes. ... [pt.5] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5338
eBooks Prose on several occasions: accompanied with some pieces in verse. By George Colman. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5302
eBooks Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4595
eBooks Harper’s magazine: [1879-1880] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3170
eBooks Truth and falshood: a tale https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3557
eBooks The corruptions of Christianity considered as affecting its truth: A sermon, preached before The Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; ... By Alexander Gerard, ... To which is added, an appendix, containing an abstract of the Pr... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5055
eBooks The history of Sir Charles Grandison: In a series of letters published from the originals, by the editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In seven volumes. ... [pt.4]Sir Charles Grandison https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3525
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.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4479
eBooks Mr. Pope's literary correspondence for thirty years; from 1704 to 1734. Being, a collection of letters, which passed between him and several eminent persons. Volume the first https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3658
eBooks The Day's Work https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3267
eBooks A third discourse on the miracles of our Saviour, in view of the present controversy between infidels and apostates. By Thomas Woolston, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4626
eBooks The habitable world described: or the present state of the people in all parts of the globe, from north to south; shewing the situation, extent, climate, ... including all the new discoveries: ... With a great variety of maps and copper-plates, ..... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5039
eBooks Two letters addressed to a member of the present Parliament: on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France. By the Right Hon. Edmund Burke.Thoughts on the prospect of a regicide peace https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4236
eBooks Learning at a loss, or the amours of Mr. Pedant and Miss Hartley. A novel. In two volumes.: [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4816
eBooks A key to the lock: Or, a treatise proving, beyond all contradiction, the dangerous tendency of a late poem, entituled, The rape of the lock, to government and religion. By Esdras Barnivelt, apoth. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3684
eBooks Alwyn: or the gentleman comedian. In two volumes. ...: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3755
eBooks Hermione, or the orphan sisters: A novel. In four volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5264
eBooks The case of Mrs. Clive submitted to the publick https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4541
eBooks The force of fired gun-powder, and the initial velocities of cannon balls: determined by experiments; from which is also deduced the relation of the initial velocity to the weight of the shot and the quantity of powder. By Charles Hutton, ... Read... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3377
eBooks The Athenaid: a poem, by the author of Leonidas. [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4814
eBooks The babler: Containing a careful selection from those entertaining and interesting essays. Which have given the public so much satisfaction under that title ... in Owen's Weekly Chronicle. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5133
eBooks Declaratio de pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis. EnglishThat chyldren oughte to be taught and brought up gently in vertue and learnynge, and that euen forthwyth from theyr natiuitie: a declamacion of a briefe theme https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3183
eBooks Far from the madding crowd https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3042
eBooks The Lady's museum: By the author of The Female Quixote. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3545
eBooks Observations relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776: on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland. ... By William Gilpin, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4841
eBooks Verses to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, on the death of the Right Honourable Henry Pelham: By Henry Jones, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4219
eBooks The two wealthy farmers; or, the history of Mr. Bragwell. In seven parts https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5488
eBooks Henrietta: By the author of The female Quixote. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4564
eBooks Common-place arguments against administration: with obvious answers, (intended for the use of the new Parliament.). https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3574
eBooks The Second Jungle Book https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3277
eBooks The hermitage: a British story. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5022
eBooks Remarks on forest scenery: and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire. In three books. ... By William Gilpin, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4825