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eBooks Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works, and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus. By Mr. PopeMemoirs of Martinus Scriblerus https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3685
eBooks Bible. English. AuthorizedThe Bible: King James version https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3036
eBooks The entire ceremonies of the coronations of His Majesty King Charles II. and of her Majesty Queen Mary, Consort to James II: As published by those learned heralds Ashmole and Sandford. With the prayers at full length. To which is prefix'd, an intr... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5279
eBooks The mill on the Floss https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3166
eBooks Miscellanies in prose and verse: by Thomas Chatterton, the supposed author of the poems published under the names of Rowley, Canning, &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4039
eBooks The adventures of Hugh Trevor: By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.6] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4454
eBooks Thomas and Sally: or, the sailor's return: A musical entertainment. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. The music composed by Doctor Arne. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4907
eBooks Independence: A poem. Addressed to the minority. By [blank] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4002
eBooks An elegy on the death of an amiable young lady. With an epistle from Menalcas to Lycidas. To which are prefixed, three critical recommendatory letters https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3913
eBooks Mr. Addison's dissertation upon the most celebrated Roman poets: Also an essay upon the Roman elegiac poets. By Major Pack. The third edition. To which is added, an essay upon Mr. Addison's writings. By R. Young, Esq;. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5281
eBooks Lines on a late resignation at the Royal Academy https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4587
eBooks The London merchant: or, the history of George Barnwell. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's servants. By Mr. Lillo. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4064
eBooks ALL'S Well, that Ends Well. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5699
eBooks The speech delivered by Robert Jephson, Esq; on the 11th of February, 1774, in the debate on the committing heads of a bill, for "the better encouragement of persons professing the Popish religion to become Protestants, and for the further improve... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3762
eBooks The Catholic encyclopediaA machine readable edition https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3156
eBooks The double dealer: A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal. By their Majesties servants. Written by Mr. Congreve. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5438
eBooks The Irish widow: In two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4005
eBooks The harmony and agreement of the collects, epistles, and gospels: as they stand in the Book of Common-Prayer, from the first Sunday in Advent, to the last Sunday after Trinity. ... Proper to be bound up with the Common-Prayer, ... By Henry Bourne,... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4972
eBooks St. Patrick's day; or, the scheming lieutenant: A comic opera: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, Smoke-Alley. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4180
eBooks The rival sisters: A tragedy. Adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the prompt-book, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3420
eBooks Philander. A dramatic pastoral: By the author of the Female quixote. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3754
eBooks THE Merry Wiues of Windsor. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5716
eBooks The chase: a pastoral drama of two acts https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4598
eBooks The life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. By William Gilpin, M.A. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4844
eBooks Osric the lion!: A romance. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4779
eBooks Miscellany poems, on several occasions: Written by the Right Honble Anne, Countess of Winchilsea. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4784
eBooks The clandestine marriage: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By George Colman and David Garrick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3898
eBooks Natural history: general and particular, by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 260 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations by the translator. [pt.9]Histoire naturelle. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5064
eBooks The mourning bride. A tragedy: As it is acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants. Written by Mr. Congreve. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3777
eBooks One thousand eight hundred; or, I wish you a happy new year: Being a choice collection of favourite songs, on serious, moral, and lively subjects. Written and carefully revised by George Saville Carey. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5004
eBooks Journal of the Resolution's voyage: in 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. On discovery to the southern hemisphere, ... Also a journal of the Adventure's voyage, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1774. ... Illustrated with a chart, ... and other cuts. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5274
eBooks Letters from France: containing many new anecdotes relative to the French revolution, and the present state of French manners. By Helen Maria Williams. Vol.II.Letters written in France. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5117
eBooks A new and most accurate theory of the moon's motion: whereby all her irregularities may be solved, ... Written by ... Mr. Isaac Newton, and published in Latin by Mr. David Gregory in his excellent Astronomy.Theory of the Moon's motion. Latin. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3806
eBooks Felix Holt, the radical https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3140
eBooks A continuation of facts and observations relative to the variolæ vaccinæ, or cow pox: By Edward Jenner, M.D. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5529
eBooks Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772: on several parts of England; particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. ... By William Gilpin, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4828
eBooks The memoirs of the Honourable Sir John Reresby: Bart. and last governor of York. ... Published from his original manuscript. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4897
eBooks Virginia a tragedy: with odes, pastorals, and translations. By Mrs. Brooke. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5105
eBooks Sketches of the history of man: In four volumes. By Henry Home, Lord Kaims, ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4515
eBooks Reasons against the practice of inoculating the small-pox: As also a brief account of the operation of this poison, infused after this manner into a wound. By Legard Sparham, Surgeon. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5575
eBooks Sappho and Phaon: in a series of legitimate sonnets, with thoughts on poetical subjects, and anecdotes of the Grecian poetess https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3250
eBooks Observations, civil and canonical, on the marriage contract, as entered into conformably to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. By W. Kenrick, LL.D https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4660
eBooks A brief concordance to the holy scriptures: of the Old and New Testament. ... By John Brown. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5071
eBooks The history of Sir George Warrington: or the political Quixote. By the author of The female Quixote. In three volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5476
eBooks The Roaring Girl or Moll Cutpurse https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3006
eBooks An history of the earth: and animated nature: by Oliver Goldsmith. In eight volumes. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5336
eBooks The beauties of Goldsmith: or, the moral and sentimental treasury of genius. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5321
eBooks Three short letters to the people of England, proving the public grievances complained of to be ideal: By the Revd. Dr. John Trusler. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4818
eBooks A complete history of the English stage: ... by Mr. Dibdin. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5221
eBooks Falstaff's wedding: a comedy: as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. Being a sequel to the second part of the play of King Henry the fourth. Written in imitation of Shakespeare, by W. Kenrick. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3975