106 results filtered with: English fiction - Great Britain - 18th century
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The noble slaves: Or, The lives and adventures of two lords and two ladies, who were shipwreck'd and cast upon a desolate Island near the East-Indies, in the year, 1710. The manner of their living there: the surprizing discoveries they made, and strange deliverance thence. How in their return to Europe they were taken by two algerine pirates near the straits of Gibraltar. Of the slavery they endured in Barbary; and of their meeting there with several persons of quality, who were likewise slaves. Of their escaping thence and safe arrival in their respective countries, Venice, Spain, and France, in the year 1718. With many extraordinary accidents that befel some of them afterwards. Being a history full of most remarkable events. By Mrs. Aubin.
Aubin, Penelope, approximately 1679-approximately 1738.Date: M,DCC,XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The famous history of the whimsical Mr. Spectator. The famous Mrs Bicknell with agreeable letters, with witty, and very entertaining for a winters evening, or a summers retreat.
Bicknell, Mrs.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The Midnight ambulator; or The nocturnal rambles, and hair-breadth escapes, &c. of the celebrated Don Lopez Devilshours. An eccentric character in the city of Madrid. Also containing a curious relation, by a lady to her husband, describing the dreadful malady of the night-mare, so prevalent in Spain.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Dodsley's select fables of Esop and other fabulists. In three books. As well for the use of schools as young gentlemen.
Aesop.Date: 1763- Books
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The midnight bell, a German story, founded on incidents in real life. In three volumes.
Lathom, Francis, 1777-1832.Date: 1798- Books
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The Famous history of Tom Thumb. Wherein is declared, his marvellous acts of manhood, full of wonder and merriment. Performed after his first return from fairy-land. Part the second.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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Tales of the cottage; or Stories, moral and amusing, for young persons. Written on the plan of that celebrated work Les Veillees du Chateau, by Madam Genlis. By Mrs. Pilkington.
Pilkington, Mrs. (Mary), 1766-1839.Date: 1799- Books
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Persecuted virtue: or, The lover. A true secret history. Writ at the request of a lady of quality.
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756.Date: 1729- Books
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The Merry tales of the wise men of Gotham.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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Sutton-Abbey. A novel. In a series of letters, founded on facts.
Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Cheap Repository. Sunday reading. On the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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The Nightingale. A tale.
Date: 1721- Books
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Mere nature delineated: or, A body without a soul. Being observations upon the young forester lately brought to town from Germany. With suitable applications. Also, a brief dissertation upon the usefulness and necessity of fools, whether political or natural.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1726- Books
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The Family in-compact, contrasted with the family compact; a tale, from real life.
Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Atys and adrastus, a tale. By Mr. William WhiteHead, Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge.
Whitehead, William, 1715-1785.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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The sufferings of the family of Ortenberg. A novel. Translated fom the German of Augustus Von Kotzebue, by P. Will, Minister of the Reformed Congregation in the Savoy. In two volumes.
Kotzebue, August von, 1761-1819.Date: 1799- Books
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The Famous history Tom Thumb. Wherein is declared, his marvellous acts of manhood, full of wonderful merriment, performed after his first return from fairy land. Part the second.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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Hartlebourn Castle: a descriptive English tale. In two volumes.
Date: 1793- Books
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Cheap Repository. Sunday reading. Joseph in prison. Part II.
Date: [1796]- Books
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The Fair adulteress. A novel. A story founded on real facts, and intended to encourage virtue, by exposing vice in its proper colours: being the genuine history of the late amours of two persons of the first rank.
Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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The noble slaves: Or, The lives and adventures of two lords and two ladies, who were shipwreck'd and cast upon a desolate island near the East-Indies, in the year 1710. The manner of their living there: the surprizing discoveries they made, and strange deliverance thence. How in their return to Europe they were taken by two Algerine pirates near the straits of Gibraltar. Of the slavery they endured in Barbary; and of their meeting there with several persons of quality, who were likewise slaves. Of their escaping thence, and safe arrival in their respective countries, Venice, Sapin, and France, in the year 1718. With many extraordinary accidents that befel some of them afterwards. Being a history full of most remarkable events. By Mrs. Aubin.
Aubin, Penelope, approximately 1679-approximately 1738.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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Emma: or, The child of sorrow. A novel. In two volumes. Volume I.
Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Entertaining memoirs of little personages, or moral amusements for young gentleman. Contain'd in the histories of Master Jospeh Jollyboy, Trueworth commonly call'd Tommy Telltruth, Billy Trifler, Francis Fearful, Simon Simple, the Tiuant, or history of master playful. With moral wit your mind provide, all will be pleas'd, and none will chide. Embellished with seven wood cuts elegantly executed, and adapted to the tales.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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Cheap Repository. Sunday reading. Joseph delivered out of prison. The story of Joseph and his brethren. Part III.
Date: [1796]- Books
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The Fair jilt; or, The amours of Prince Tarquin and Miranda. Containing, I. Her intriguing with several persons of quality, and falling in love with a young friar, (who had take holy orders on account of a love affair; who not complying with her desires, she accuses him with ravishing her while at confession, for which he is condemned; soon after she becomes enamoured of Prince Tarquin, who likewise becomes enmoured of, and soon after marries her, II. Being pressed by her sister to pay her fortune, as being addressed by several of the nobility in Wedlock, and her prevailing with her page, (whom she indulged in the greatest familiarities in her own closer) to make away with her sister; his attempting it by poison, and execution for the same, with her disgrace thereupon, &c. III. The history of Prince Henrick, or the unnatural brother shewing how Prince Henrick being smitten with the charms of young lady, kept company with her some time; and one day took his elder brother with him to see this beautiful object; who soon became enamoured of her and insisted on his brother's resigning her to him: on pain of death. Prevails on his father, the Old King, to send Henrick abroad on business, and in the mean time makes his addresses to the young lady, and tells her his brother had not the least regard for her, and was gone on his travels; her grief at not hearing from him; (his letters being intercepted) the elder brother prevails on the King to consent to the marriage; on which account she is brought to court, without being made acquainted with the design, and obliged by her parents to marry him; with the effect it had on Prince Henrick at his return.
Date: [1790?]