English literature - Early works to 1800

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A Complete picture of human life: or, Variety of food for the mind . Consisting of valuable matter, calculated for the pleasure and instruction of readers of every class; and including a collection of genuine and entertaining narrations, tales, stories, anecdotes, essays, historiess, adventures, relations, memoirs, lives, morals, poems, strange occurrences, singular providences, remarkable characters, melancholy transactions, admirable deliverances, wonderful events, &c. Among which,besides those articles selected from approved authors, are interspersed many original pieces, never before published.
Date: [1795?]
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The satires, epistles, and art of poetry of Horace , translated into English prose, as near as the propriety of the two languages will admit. Together with the original Latin from the best editions. Wherein the words of the Latin text are ranged in their grammatical order; the ellipses carefully supplied; the observations of the most valuable commentators, both antient and modern, represented; and the author's design and beautiful descriptions fully set forth in a key annexed to each poem; with notes geographical, historical, and critical: also the various readings of Dr. Bentley. The whole adapted to the capacities of youth at school, as well as of private gentlemen. ... To which is prefixed a critical dissertation on Horace and his writings.
HoraceDate: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]
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The science of love or The whole art of courtship made familiar to every capacity containing love-letters, pleasing conversations, poems, & songs to which is added an appendix instructing persons of both sexes in the cheier of a companion for life[.].
Date: 1792
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Analects in verse and prose , chiefly dramatical, satirical, and pastoral.
Carey, George Saville, 1743-1807.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]
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The third volume of the works of Mr. Thomas Brown, containing, Amusements serious & comical, calculated for the meridian of London. To which is added, ten letters, on several subjects, Together with His Pocket-Book of Common Places. His Walk round London and Westminster, pleasantly exposing the Vices and Follies of several parts of the Town. Letters translated from Aeneas Sylvius, Poet-Laureat to the Emperor, who was after that created Pope, (pius II.) with his Satyr on Women of the Town. A Declamation in Defence of Gaming, &c. against Drunkenness. The Dispensary; or, The Quacks: a Farce, wrote in the Year 1697. His Diverting Letters, Billet-Deux, both Originals and Translations, to Gentlemen and Ladies. His Voyage on the Thames; or, the Water-Dialect. Poems, Translations, Lampoons, and Satyrs on several Occasions, in Latin and English. A Continuation of the Quaker's Sermon. His London and Lacedemonian Oracles, resolving many Nice and Curious Questions
Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.Date: 1708