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- The lousiad:, an heroi-comic poem., By Peter Pindar, Esquire. ; [Fourteen lines of verse]
- The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless;, shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he became a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same. : The like never before published. Very proper to be kept in all families. : [Three lines of Latin text]
- The toddy-mill, or The humorous adventures of Dick Bully., A caricature., By Johny Gilpin. ...
- A New method of ejectment;, being a compendious and easy way, which for its usefulness is recommended to young practitioners in the law, especially in N.-C-r-l-na.
- The poetical works of Peter Pindar, Esq. a distant relation to the poet of Thebes., To which are prefixed, memoirs and anecdotes of the author. : Vol. I[-II].
- An address to a provincial bashaw., [One line from Shakespeare], By a son of liberty.
- Festoons of fancy,, consisting of compositions amatory, sentimental and humorous, in verse and prose., By William Littell, Esq. L.L.D.
- The trotter, choker & company exhibited. By a visitor. ...
- At a court held at Punch-Hall, in the county of Bacchus., The indictment and tryal of Sir Richard Rum, a person of noble birth and extraction, well known both to rich and poor, throughout America. Who was accused of several misdemeanours against His Majesty's liege people, viz. killing some, wounding others, bringing thousands to poverty, and many good families to utter ruin. : [Two lines of quotation]
- Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred., [One line in French from Leibnitz], Translated from the French, by W. Hooper, M.A.
- Pursuits of literature., A satirical poem in four dialogues, with notes. : To which are annexed, a vindication of the work, and translations of all the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French quotations. : [Three lines of quotation in Greek]
- The life and death of Old Father Janus, the vile author of the late wicked Courant., A satyr.
- Des Johann Lassenius politische Geheimniss vieler hin und wieder heutiges Tages einreissenden unartigen Atheisten, in einigen Gesprächen entdecket und etworfen.
- Liberty and property vindicated, and the st--pm-n burnt., A discourse occasionally made on burning the effige [sic] of the st--mp-n. In New-London, in the colony of Connecticut., By a friend to the liberty of his country.
- The politician out-witted,, a comedy, in five acts. : Written in the year 1788., By an American. ; [Two lines from Falconer's Shipwreck]
- Les amours et les aventures du Lord Fox, traduits de l'Anglois par M***
- The Baviad, and Maeviad,, By William Gifford, Esquire. ; [Five lines of Latin verse] ; To which is prefixed, a poetical epistle to the author, by an American gentleman.
- The fall of British tyranny: or, American liberty triumphant., The first campaign. : A tragi-comedy of five acts, as lately planned at the Royal Theatrum Pandemonium, at St. James's. The principal place of action in America. : Publish'd according to act of Parliament. : [Three lines of quotation]
- Look before ye loup; or, A healin' sa' for the crackit crowns of country politicians,, by Tam Thrum, an auld weaver. ; [Two line epitaph]
- The following is a copy of a bill which was stuck up at Richmond, on Saturday the 4th of June, 1774, close to the playbill for that day;, the design of which was to divert the minds of the dissipated and gay from the vain amusements of the theatre, and to fix their attention to the awful circumstances which shall usher in and succeed the great and terrible day of the Lord. ... : By command of the King of Kings, and at the desire of all who love His appearing. At the great theatre of the universe, on the eve of time, will be performed, The great assize, or Day of Judgment. ...
- A sermon, delivered in Rutland, on a hay-mow., By Stephen Burroughs, to his auditory the Pelhamites.
- The toy-shop; or Sentimental preceptor., Designed for instruction and amusement., By Robert Dodsley. ; [Two lines of verse]
- A pretty story written in the year of our Lord 2774., By Peter Grievous, Esq; A.B.C.D.E. ; [One line in Latin]
- The Devil upon crutches in England: or, Night scenes in London:, a satirical work. Written upon the plan of the celebrated Diable Boiteux of Monsieur Le Sage. : In two parts., By a gentleman of Oxford, Part I. ; [One line of Latin from Juvenal]
- The cow chace., In three cantos., Written in the year 1780, by Major John Andre, adjutant-general to the British Army in North America, a few weeks previous to his capture by the Americans.
- News from the infernal regions, or, A conference of the black brotherhood.
- The Macaroni jester,, being, a select series; of original stories---witty repartees---comical and original bulls---entertaining anecdotes, &c. &c. : The whole collected from a great variety of company in the world, and never before published to the world. : To which are added, Brown's Quaker sermon and grace., By a gentleman of the world, who when he sat with certain people, mentioned and not mentioned, in this book, had always a pencil and pocket-book.
- The ghost of Baron Steuben; or, Fredonia in arms!, Being a description of that most bloody campaign, styled the Alexandro-Cæsaro-Eugenio-Frederico-Bonapartic campaign out-Napoleonised; or a Georgia training: in which the most exquisite discipline, subordination, military knowledge, fortitude, temperance, and patriotic preparation, are clearly exemplified and pathetically recommended to all who are convinced of the uselessness and mischief of a standing army.
- Letters on various interesting and important subjects;, many of which have appeared in the Aurora. Corrected and much enlarged., By Robert Slender. O.S.M. ; [Two lines from Pope]
- Re-commencement, commencement again, commencement in earnest, commencement indeed, &c., called also, censure, scandal, vague report, common fame, matters and things in general, or what you please. : Recited before "The Associated Instructors of Youth in the Town of Boston," October 30, 1811., By a brother. ; [One line from Virgil with an English translation by a "careless schoolboy"]
- The Lamentation, of Pennsylvania, on account of the Stamp-Act,, together with the prayer of J--n H--ws.
- Letter found on board the sloop Illicit, Captain Perjury, wrecked at Oyster Bay., To Messieurs Admiral Pepperpot, Commodore Mac-eat-it, Phil Blusterlong, John Bythebelt, Lowrence the Cline ...
- Out-lines.
- A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall., [Three lines of quotation]
- The first book of the American chronicles of the times, Chap. IV.
- The Triumph of the Whigs: or, T'other Congress convened., [Three lines from Garth]
- The Melancholy case of Mrs. Ackerman., Copy of a letter from a Dutch farmer, in the county of Orange, to a gentleman of the law, in the city of New-York. Tappan de 27 Jannuarie 1772.
- The School for scandal., A comedy. : [Four lines of quotation in Latin]
- Nosum nosorum: or, A new treatise on large noses.
- Monarchy:, a parody on the celebrated eclogue of Pope.
- Re-re-commencement: a kind of a poem:, calculated to be recited before an "assemblage" of New-England divines, of all the various denominations; but which never was so recited, and in all human probability never will be., By a friend of every body and every soul. ; [Two lines of quotations]
- A dialogue, between the giant Polypheme and his son Jack Nothing: on occasion of his eye being put out by a stranger:, with a dedication to Sir, John Brute. : [Nine lines of quotations]
- A pretty story written in the year of our Lord, 2774,, by Peter Grievous, Esquire, A.B.C.D.E. ; [One line of Latin text]
- The adulateur., A tragedy, as it is now acted in Upper Servia. : [Six lines from Cato]
- The manners of the times;, a satire. In two parts., By Philadelphiensis. ; [Two lines in Latin from Juvenal]
- A Scene in the first act of the new farce., Published as a specimen. : [One line in Latin]
- He wou'd be a poet; or, "Nature will be nature still.", An heroic poem: to which is annexed a thanksgiving epistle on electioneering success., By Geoffry Touchstone.
- Contes philosophiques et moraux, Par M. de la Dixmerie
- Stephen Burrouhs' [sic] sermon., Delivered in Rutland on a hay-mow. To his auditory the Pelhamites, at the time when a mob of them, after having pursued him to Rutland, in order to apprehend him because he had abruptly departed and absconded from Pelham, where he had been preaching the Gospel, shut himself into a barn, to which he ran for assylum [sic], when he ascended a hay mow which was inaccessible except in one place, with a weapon of defence in his hand with which he kept off his pursuers at pleasure, as mentioned in the author's Memoirs, page 90, and delivered to them the following sermon on the occasion.
- A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall., With a dialogue between the professor and Sir John Brute. : [Two lines of quotation]