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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks The golden age https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3234
eBooks Anne of Green Gables https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3243
eBooks The citizen of the world: or letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the east. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5322
eBooks Love in the East; or, adventures of twelve hours: a comic opera, in three acts. Written by the author of The strangers at home. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4025
eBooks A proposal for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations, and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3797
eBooks More ways than one: a comedy, as acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By Mrs. Cowley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4459
eBooks The rights of man: first published in the year 1783. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4129
eBooks The tragedy of the Lady Jane Gray: As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By N. Rowe Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4230
eBooks A trip to the moon: Containing an account of the island of Noibla. Its inhabitants, religious and political customs, &c. By Sir Humphrey Lunatic, Bart. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5093
eBooks The history of English poetry: from the close of the eleventh to the commencement of the eighteenth century. To which are prefixed, two dissertations. ... By Thomas Warton, ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5310
eBooks An historical tragedy of the civil wars: in the reign of King Henry VI. (Being a sequel to the Tragedy of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester: and a introduction to the Tragical history of King Richard III.) Alter'd from Shakespear, in the year 1720. By Th... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3993
eBooks Two strings to your bow: a farce, in two acts, as now performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, with distinguished applause. By Robert Jephson, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4239
eBooks Letters containing a sketch of the politics of France: from the thirty-first of May 1793, till the twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the scenes which have passed in the prisons of Paris. By Helen Maria Williams. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4518
eBooks The plain dealer: being select essays on several curious subjects: relating to friendship, ... poetry, and other branches of polite literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And now first collected into two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5200
eBooks A letter to the Right Honourable William Windham, on the intemperance and dangerous tendency of his public conduct. By Thomas Holcroft https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4414
eBooks The mercer, or fatal extravagance: being a true narrative of the life of Mr. Wm. Dennis. Mercer, in Cheapside, London. ... Written by Mrs. Charke, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4488
eBooks De cive: containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes in which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist togethe... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3118
eBooks Love for love. A comedy: Acted at the Theatre in Little-Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants. Written by Mr. Congreve. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3345
eBooks Appearance is against them: in a series of letters, in three volumes, by the author of Emily Herbert, or perfidy punished. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5496
eBooks Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain: during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; with cursory remarks upon the present state of arts in that kingdom. By Richard Cumberland. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5006
eBooks The Grecian history: From the end of the Peloponnesian War, to the death of Philip of Macedon. Containing the space of sixty-eight years. By Temple Stanyan, Esq; Volume the second, now originally publish'd. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5276
eBooks Alfred. A tragedy. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3829
eBooks Memoirs: of Mrs. Lætitia Pilkington, wife to the Rev. Mr. Matthew Pilkington. Written by herself. Wherein are occasionally interspersed, all her poems; with anecdotes of several eminent persons, living and dead. Among others, Dean Swift, Alexander... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5269
eBooks The long odds: A serenata, in two acts. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3465
eBooks An answer to a paper concerning Mr. De Foe, against his History of the union https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5461
eBooks The monk: a romance. In three volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5166
eBooks The widow'd wife. A comedy: as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. By His Majesty's servants. By W. Kenrick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4244
eBooks Nicholas Nickleby https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3082
eBooks The secret history of the secret history of the White Staff, Purse and Mitre. Written by a person of honour https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4334
eBooks An account of the state of learning in the empire of Lilliput: Together with the history and character of Bullum the Emperor's Library-Keeper. Faithfully transcribed out of Captain Lemuel Gulliver's General description of the empire of Lilliput, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4373
eBooks The Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3085
eBooks A sermon preached at the Assizes at Durham July 29th, 1795; ... By William Paley, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4170
eBooks Marcellus: a monody. Humbly inscrib'd to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. By Mr Delap, M.A. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4035
eBooks Gotham. A poem. Book I. By C. Churchill https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3587
eBooks Bishop Bonner's ghost https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3854
eBooks A letter to a bishop, concerning lectureships. By F.T. assistant curate at - and joint-lecturer of St.- https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4782
eBooks An epistle to Gorges Edmond Howard: Esq. With notes explanatory, critical, and historical, by George Faulkner, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5127
eBooks Dan and Jane: or faith and works. A tale. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3906
eBooks A tour in Scotland: MDCCLXIX. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5284
eBooks Curiosities of literature: Consisting of anecdotes, characters, sketches, and observations, literary, critical, and historical. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4973
eBooks The balnea: or, an impartial description of all the popular watering places in England, ... By George Saville Carey. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5453
eBooks A collection of the most esteemed pieces of poetry: that have appeared for several years. With variety of originals, by the late Moses Mendez, Esq; and other contributors to Dodsley's collection. To which this is intended as a supplement. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5089
eBooks Letters of Mr. Wycherley & Mr. Pope, from the year 1704 to 1710: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3655
eBooks Selected Klondike Short Stories https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3044
eBooks Burke's address to the "swinish*" multitude! Tune "Derry down, down," &c https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3737
eBooks The present state of the war, and the necessity of an augmentation, consider'd https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4350
eBooks Principles of equity https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4455
eBooks The dramatic puffers, a prelude; as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3563
eBooks North and south https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3107
eBooks Liberty chastised: or patriotism in chains. A tragi, comi, political farce, as it was performed by his M-'s S-ts, in the year 1268; ... Scenes near the P- and in St. Gregoir's Fields. Modernised by Paul Tell-Truth, Esq https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4748