Narrative poetry - Early works to 1800
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The tragicall hystory of Romeus and Juliet contayning in it a rare example of true constancie; with the subtill counsels and practises of an old fryer, and their ill event.
Brooke, Arthur, d. 1563.Date: 1780]- E-books
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�sop at Oxford or, a few select fables in verse, under the following heads, viz. �sop matriculated. �sop's thanks. Aesop's Case. The Pay-Master General. The famous Hist Goodman I did it. The Paradox. The Devil on two Sticks. The Female Hypocrite. A notable A Present for a Courtier. Worse and Worse. Whitehall and St. James's. A Woman that did Good in her Life. Diamonds cut Diamonds. The Foreigner. The modern Convert. Modern in Mini, The Picture of an Ecclesiastick. The General Peace. One that lost his Life for being out of Danger. Way of the World. The Case is alter'd. The Cure worse than the Disease. Sauce for a Goose, for a Gander. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters. The Royal Mourner. The Candidates. Conclusion.
Pittis, William, 1674-1724.Date: 1709?]- E-books
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A short trip into Kent , containing the occurrences of four summer days; calculated as an antidote against the gloominess of the winter months, and particularly that which is occasion'd by the observation of the 30th. of January. In hudibrastick verse. By Phileleutherus Britannus.
Phileleutherus Britannus.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- E-books
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�sop in masquerade or, some state-lessons For Certain courtiers, In a few Select fables in Verse. Written by a Person of Quality, under the following Heads: Fab. I. The Introduction. Fab. II. The Consequences of a Standing Army. Fab. III. A certain Knight's Case. Fab. IV. The Non-Juror. Fab. V. Jack of Both Sides. Fab. VI. Trade and Empire inconsistent. Fab. Vii. The Subjects Case. Fab. Viii. A Trick worth Two. Fab. IX. The Revolution. Fab. X. The Republican. Fab. XI. The Effect of Naturalizing Acts. Fab. XII. A Word to the Wise. Fab. XIII. Tom Bradbury the Non-Con to a Hair. Fab. XIV. The Whig's Pocket Looking-Glass. Fab. XV. Never a Barrel the better Herring. Fab. XVI. Sauce for a Goose Sauce for a Gander.
Pittis, William, 1674-1724.Date: 1718- E-books
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Bickerstaff's Æsop or, the humours of the times, digested into fables. Humbly dedicated to those flourishing sisters, the two universities of Great Britain.
Pittis, William, 1674-1724.Date: [1709]