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eBooks The man of ten thousand: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. The second edition. By Thomas Holcroft. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3359
eBooks An essay on acting: in which will be consider'd the mimical behaviour of a certain fashionable faulty actor, ... To which will be added, a short criticism on his acting Macbeth. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3728
eBooks The pannel: As altered by J. P. Kemble. From Bickerstaff's translation of Calderon's El escondido y la trapada; and first acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, November 28th, 1788. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3411
eBooks The Italian: or the confessional of the black penitents. A romance. By Ann Radcliffe, ... In three volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4397
eBooks The grounds of criticism in poetry, contain'd in some new discoveries never made before, requisite for the writing and judging of poems surely. Being a preliminary to a larger work design'd to be publish'd in folio, and entituled, A criticism upon... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4531
eBooks An historical essay on the principles of political associations in a state: ... in a comparative view of the associations of the year 1792, and that recently instituted by the Whig club. By the Rev. John Brand, M.A. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3801
eBooks The Spanish lady, a musical entertainment: in two acts; founded on the plan of the old ballad. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3489
eBooks A general history of quadrupeds: The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4387
eBooks The runaway, a comedy: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4161
eBooks Tamerlane. A tragedy: As it is acted at the New Theater in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesty's servants. Written by N. Rowe, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4307
eBooks An essay for abridging the study of physick. To which is added, A dialogue, ... relating to the practice of physick, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5584
eBooks Philosophical essays: concerning human understanding. By the author of the Essays moral and political. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3637
eBooks Memoirs of the present state of the court and councils of Spain: In two parts. With the true reasons why this vast monarchy, which in the last century made so considerable a figure in the world, is in this so feeble and paralytick. Done into Engli... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3422
eBooks Soldiers Three https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3299
eBooks The letters of Valens, (which originally appeared in the London Evening Post) with corrections, explanatory notes, and a preface, by the author https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4022
eBooks Original letters of the late Reverend Mr. Laurence Sterne; never before published https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3793
eBooks The Virginia house-wife: method is the soul of management https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3152
eBooks In the dead of the night. Sung by Mrs. Jordan in The wedding dayWedding day. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5472
eBooks An account of Barbarossa: the usurper of Algiers. Being the story on which the new tragedy, now in rehearsal at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, is founded. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5107
eBooks The progress of envy: a poem, in imitation of Spenser. Occasioned by Lauder's attack on the character of Milton. Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bath. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3645
eBooks Memoirs of some transactions during the late ministry of Robert E. of OxfordAccount of the conduct of Robert, Earl of Oxford https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4491
eBooks Critical observations on the sixth book of the Æneid https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4650
eBooks A dialogue between a dissenter and the Observator, concerning The shortest way with the dissenters https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3934
eBooks An account of the life, and dealings of God with Silas Told: ... Written by himself. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5414
eBooks Epistles philosophical and moral https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4884
eBooks 3. Art and Morality (handout) Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist (handout) Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks 1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art (handout) Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks Letters writ by a Turkish spy https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/marlowe/christopher/dido/
eBooks The plays, histories and novels of ... mrs. Aphra Behn. With life and memoirs. (6/6) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The plays, histories and novels of ... mrs. Aphra Behn. With life and memoirs. (5/6) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The plays, histories and novels of ... mrs. Aphra Behn. With life and memoirs. (4/6) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The plays, histories and novels of ... mrs. Aphra Behn. With life and memoirs. (3/6) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks The plays, histories and novels of ... mrs. Aphra Behn. With life and memoirs. (2/6) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks The plays, histories and novels of ... mrs. Aphra Behn. With life and memoirs. (1/6) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/blake/william/drawings-and-engravings/
eBooks The Rover Part II https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/behn/aphra/b42r2/
eBooks Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/politics-vs-literature/
eBooks Charles Dickens George Orwell https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/charles-dickens/
eBooks Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/man-could-stand-up/
eBooks Parade's End: No More Parades https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/no-more-parades/
eBooks Parade's End: Some Do Not... https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/some-do-not/
eBooks The Good Soldier https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/good_soldier/
eBooks The Fifth Queen Crowned https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/fifth-queen-crowned/
eBooks Privy Seal: His Last Venture https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/privy-seal/
eBooks The Fifth Queen; and how she came to Court https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/ford_madox/fifth-queen/
eBooks The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/conrad/joseph/inheritors/
eBooks Romance https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/conrad/joseph/romance/
eBooks Poems, Third Series https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickinson/emily/series3/