Tales - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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The shepherdess of the Alps . A moral tale. Translated from the French of Monsieur Marmontel.
Marmontel, Jean François, 1723-1799.Date: 1797
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The Salopian Esquire: or, The joyous miller . A dramatick tale. It being the same dramatick tale that was delivered to a proprietor, October 23, 1736, and returned the 23d of December, in the same year. To which are added, poems on His Late Grace John Duke of Marlborough. Sir Harry Wigmore, Miss Jenny Godsrey, and Dego, a tale. The distressed poet, or the guardian genius. Will. Fuller and Jack Stripall, a tale. The new river head, a fragment. An epitaph on Mr. John Adams, Jun. late of presteign. To which is annexed by way of essay, a proprietor's reason for not bringing the dramatick tale on the stage, the stratagems of popish priests, and the reception the poem on His Llate Grace John Duke of Marlborough met with, at her grace's house in the friery, near St. James's. By E. Dower.
Dower, E.Date: 1738
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Tales, translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi. In two volumes
In⁻ayat All⁻ah, d. ca. 1671.Date: M DCC LXIX. [1769]
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The farmer of New-Jersey; or, A picture of domestic life A tale. By the translator of Buonaparte's Campaign, author of Ferdinand and Elizabeth, &c. &c. [Four lines from Thomson].
Davis, John, 1774-1854.Date: 1800
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The surprize: or, The gentleman turn'd apothecary. A tale. Written originally in French prose; afterwards translated into Latin; and from thence now versified in hudibrastics
Ellis, John, 1698-1790.Date: [1739?]