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The witty and humorous jester; by a buck of the first order. Containing a select collection of jests, Jokes, Bon Mots, Humorous Tales, Smart Repartees, Anecdotes, And other sallies of wit and humour; Which are so laughable, that they will provoke a smile in the Countenance of the most rigid Stoic, and spread Mirth, Jollity, and good Fellowship round every Table. To which is added. A Selection of the the best and most fashionable Toast and Sentiments.
Buck of the first order.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]
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Nimble and quick. Pick and chuse where you will. Here is something to fit and please every body. Containing The humours of the age, being whimsical, witty, diverting, and comical. With useful remarks on the virtues and vices of the times.
Date: [1775?]
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The new London city jester; or a banquet of wit, mirth, and fancy. Calculated for the entertainment and amusement of both sexes; including all the fashionable Jests, Epigrams, Merry Tales, Humorous Jokes, Bon Mots, Conundrums, Irish Bulls, Comical Humbugs, Droll Narrations, Smart Repartees, New Adventures, Funny Epitaphs, and Witticisms, &c. &c.
Date: 1794
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Shakespeare's jests, or The jubilee jester: Being the most curious collection of funny jokes, merry stories, droll adventures, frolicksome tales, witty quibbles, youthful pranks, smart repartees, double entendres wise sayings, witty jests, anecdote waggeries whims, humbugs puns, bon mots and laughable tricks. That ever were offered to the public in this kingdom. To which are added a curious collection of conundrums, clever epigrams, amorous poems, the esteemed jubilee and vauxhall songs, sung this season. Humorous epitaphs, facetious dialogues, catches glees, &c. And a new collection of the most favourite toasts, sentiments, and hob nobs now the ton. The whole comprising the witty sayings, quick repartees of the several shinging wits of the present age. Which will expel cars, drown grief, create mirth, and give the reader a light heart and a chearful countenance, and teaching the agreeable art of story telling to both sexes.
Date: [1790?]
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England's witty and ingenious jester: or the merry citizen and jocular country-man's delightful companion. In Two Parts. I. A choice Collection of the Newest and Wittiest Jests, pleasant Relations, and smart Repartees. II. A Curious Collection of New Songs upon the happy Entry and Coronation of King George; Sung at Court, and both Theatres. By W. W. Gent.
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.Date: [1718]
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The tavern frolick: or, a comical dialogue between a drunken priest, and a wet London Quaker. As they met at a tavern near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, on Tuesday night last.
Date: 1704
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The new London & country jester; or, fun for the parlour & kitchen. ... By Peter Cunningham, Esq. ...
Cunningham, Peter, Professor of Drollery at Oxford.Date: [1795?]
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A curious letter from Oliver Puzzle-cause.
Puzzle-cause, Oliver.Date: [1790?]
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The gay companion; or, wit at a venture. A choice collection of bon-mots, repartees, funny jests, &c. Selected from the most esteemed authors, enriched by conviviality, mirth and good-humour.
Date: 1797
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The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, Diversified with an uncommon Variety of Merry Tales; Pointed Satires; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welch, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and Facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the works of the most celebrated authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from originals, taken from private Manuscripts. Jucundus Comes pro vehiculo est.
Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]
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The witticisms, anecdotes, jests, and sayings, of Dr. Samuel Johnson, during the whole course of his life. Collected from Boswell, Piozzi, Hawkins, Baretti, Beauclerk, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other gentlemen in the Habits of Intimacy with the Doctor. And a Full Account of Dr. Johnson's Conversation with the King. To which is Added, A great Number of Jests, In which the most distinguished Wits of the present Century bore a Part. By J. Merry, Esq. of Pembroke College.
Date: 1793
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The merry medley; or, a Christmas-Box, for gay gallants, and good companions. Containing Diverting Stories and choice Jokes, dextrous Tricks, pleasant Poems, and exquisite Epigrams, &c. Droll Dialogues, Facetious Fables, Humourous Speeches, Rysible Reflections, Ludicrous Letters, Rare Riddles, Arch Sayings. Rysible Reflections, Celebrated new and Jovial Songs fit for the Voice or Violin, and modish Country Dances; And, also The Travels of Father Christmas, and the most moving Memoirs of Jonathan Wild the Great. The whole design'd to prevent and expel Spleen and Melaucholy, and drive the cold Winter away with Mirth and Musick. Useful to all, especially Travellers and those that take Physick. Being a Complete System of Christmas Gambols. Dedicated to the lovers of fun and good fellowship, by C. F. president of the Comical club in Covent-Garden, and a true Hicobite. Vol. II.
Date: 1745
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The universal jester: or, a pocket companion for the wits. Being a choice collection of merry conceits, facetious Drolleries, humorous Waggeries, smart Repartees, pleasant Jokes, Clenchers, Closures, Bon Mots, and Humbugs; comic Stories, notable Puns, witty Quibbles, and ridiculous Bulls. To which are added, Mr. Puzzlewit's gimcracks; or, A long String of out-o'th'-way Conundrums, diverting Rebusses, poignant Epigrams, odd and uncommon Epitaphs, &c. &c. All calculated to promote inoffensive Mirth, and divert good Company with Elegance and Taste. Containing more in Number, and greater Variety, than any Book of the Kind yet published. Humbly inscribed to the choice spirits of the age. By Ferdinando Killigrew, Esq;
Killigrew, Ferdinando.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]
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The banquet of wit: containing a choice collection of bon-mots, jests, repartees, for the amusement of the fire-side.
Date: [1790?]
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The muse in good humour: or, a collection of comic tales. By the most eminent poets. In two parts.
Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]
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Yorick's jests: or, wit's common-place book, arranged on a new plan. Being a choice collection of humourous jests, happy bons-mots, Strange Adventures, Whimsical Sayings, Difficult Riddles, Perplexing Aenigmas, Smart Repartees, Ridiculous Blunders, Droll Tales, Pleasant Stories, Keen Epigrams, Puzzling Rebusses, Original Cross-Readings, &c. &c. &c. Selected From The Works And Anecdotes Of Voltaire, Foote, Ld. Chesterfield, Dr. Johnson, Mat. Prior, Dean Swift, Sterne, Quin, Thornton, Garrick, Colman, Chase Price, G. A. Stevens, Beau Nash, Ned Shuter, Geo. Selwyn, Col. Boden, &c. &c. And other Celebrated Wits of the Last and Present Age. To which is added, a choice selection of toasts and sentiments.
Date: 1783
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The English Roscius. Garrick's jests; or, genius in high glee. Containing all the jokes of the wits of the present age, viz. Mr. Garrick, Ld. Lyttleton, Mr. Fox, Ld. Mansf-, Mr. Burke, Mr. Foote, Mr. Selwyn, Dutchess of K. Lady H-, Lady T-, &c. Being Humorous, Lively, Comical Queer, Satirical Droll, Smart Repartees, Facetious, Merry Bon Mo[ll] &c. To which are added, a new selection of epigrams, poems, conundrums, toasts, sentiments, hob-nobs, &c. now in Fashion.
Date: [1785?]
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The wit of the day, or the humours of Westminster. Being a complete collection of the advertisements, hand-bills, puffs, paragraphs, squibs, songs, ballads, &c. which have been written and circulated during the late remarkable contest for that city. Faithfully compiled by a clerk to a committee.
Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
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The festival of Momus, or complete cabinet of wit; being a curious collection of lively repartees, bon-mots, choice puns, and other species of pleasing witticisms, ever offered the public; the whole calculated to Banish Care, and make the Heart Gay. Selected from the port-folios, and other repositories of fun, of the Lodge of Old Fellows, by an arch wag!
Date: [1800?]
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Ben Johnson's jests: or, the wit's pocket-companion. Being a new collection of the most ingenious jests, diverting Stories, pleasant Jokes, small Repartees, excellent Puns, wise Sayings, witty Quibbles, and ridiculous Bulls. To Which IS Added, A choice Collection of the newest Conundrums, best Riddles, entertaining Rebuses, satirical Epigrams, humorous Epitaphs, facetious Dialogues, merry Tales, jovial Songs, Fables, &c. &c. &c.
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLXI. [1761]
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Oxford jests, refined and inlarged: Being a collection of witty jests, merry tales, pleasant jokes. Collected and composed by Captain W. Hicks, native of Oxford.
Hicks, William, active 1671.Date: 1702
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Wit's cabinet: a companion for gentlemen and ladies. In which is contain'd, I. The interpretation of dreams, according to Artimedorus, and other approved authors. ... X. The art of drinking: or, The school of Bacchus. ... To which is added, a choice collection of the best songs.
Date: [1715?]
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Falstaff alive again! Or, A choice collection of jests, witticisms, anecdotes, &c. Both ancient and modern. By a Member of Comus's Court.
Member of Comus's Court.Date: 1793
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City and country recreation: or, wit and merriment rightly calculated, for the pleasure and advantage of either sex. In two parts. Part I. Containing the Pleasures of Courtship and Address; or, The whole Art of making Love. Directions for making a suitable Choice. A Description of true Love in all its Changes. How to express Love's silent Language. To know if a Party be in Love. Instructions for Courting a Maid or Widow: and how the Female Sex may make Love known, without any Injury to a modest and vertuous Behaviour; and how to dive into the secret Thoughts of their Lovers. The Comforts of Marriage in all its Circumstances; and how a good Wife may Reclaim a bad Husband, and the like of a Husband by a Wife. The whole Art of Fortune-Telling, shewing what Good or Bad Fortune is assigned you in Affairs of Love, Business, &c. A Collection of Choice Poems, by the most Celebrated Wits of the Age. Part II. Containing all the cunning Intreagues of the Beaus, Sharpers, Bullies, and Female-Decoys, to Deceive and Ruin Gentlemen, Tradesmen, &c. With their lively Characters, and a plain Discription of their several Practices, to prevent their future Designs. The Town Miss; or, London Jilt, in all her Humours, Shifts, and Intreagues; set forth, as a Looking-Glass, for the unthinking Beaus; Keeping Squires, Foolish Tradesmen, and others, to see their Folly in. To which is added, the misery of gaming: Or, The Art of keeping Ready Money in One's Pocket at all Times: With other useful Matters, never before made Publick.
J. S.Date: 1705
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Garrick's jests; or, genius in high glee. Containing all the jokes of the wits of the present age, viz. Mr. Garrick, Ld. Lyttleton, Mr. Fox, Ld. Mansf-, Mr. Burke, Mr. Foote, Mr. Selwyn, Dutchess of K. Lady H-, Lady T-, &c. Being Humorous, Lively, Comical, Queer, Satirical Droll, Smart Repartees; Facetious, Merry Bon Mots, &c. To which are added, a new selection of epigrams, poems Conundrums, Toasts, Sentiments, Hob-Nobs, &c. now in Fashion, And the Favourite New Songs Sung last Season at Vauxhall.
Date: [1785?]