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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks Catiline https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3253
eBooks Love and Freindship https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3064
eBooks Spring. A poem: By Mr. Thomson. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4109
eBooks Ode to Dragon, Mr. Garrick's house-dog, at Hampton https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5429
eBooks A pindarique ode, humbly offer'd to the Queen, on the victorious progress of Her Majesty's arms, under the conduct of the Duke of Marlborough. To which is prefix'd, a discourse on the pindarique ode. By Mr. Congreve https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4090
eBooks A general history of the stage: from its origin in Greece down to the present time. ... Collected and digested by W. R. Chetwood, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4725
eBooks A dialogue upon the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham, at Stow in Buckinghamshire https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4480
eBooks Miscellanies in prose and verse: Containing candid and impartial observations on the principal performers belonging to the two Theatres-Royal; from January 1773, to May 1775. Likewise strictures on two favourite tragedies, viz. The orphan and The ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4964
eBooks Village memoirs: in a series of letters between a clergyman and his family in the country, and his son in town. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5145
eBooks Plain directions for the treatment of wounds in general: With methods of stopping violent bleedings in cases of large wounds ... to which are added remarks on suspended animation, ... By Bernard Ogden, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5693
eBooks Catharine and Petruchio: A comedy, in three acts. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Alter'd from Shakespear's Taming of the shrew. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3884
eBooks The female Quixote: or, the adventures of Arabella. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4543
eBooks The opinion of a known Dissenter on the bill for preventing occasional conformity https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3397
eBooks An answer to some objections of a moderate enquirer https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5206
eBooks A short tract concerning the doctrine of "Nullum tempus occurrit regi:": shewing the particular cases to which it is applicable; and that it cannot, according to law, be effectual for the recovery of manors, lands, or tenements, alienated from the... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3640
eBooks The macaroni. A comedy: As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in York. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4466
eBooks The history of Hester Wilmot; or, the second part of The Sunday schoolSunday school. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5421
eBooks Observations on the use of bathing; warm and cold: and the diseases it will cure without a doctor. With an account of the cicer venereum, ... the celebrated restorative among the antient Greeks, ... Illustrated with its figure. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5545
eBooks The auction a poem: a familiar epistle to a friend, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3853
eBooks The connoisseur: By Mr. Town, critic and censor-general. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5408
eBooks The voyages and adventures of Captain Robert Boyle: in several parts of the world. Intermix'd with the story of Mrs. Villars, an English lady with whom he made his surprizing escape from Barbary; the history of an Italian captive; and the life of ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5296
eBooks Memoirs of a Magdalen: or, the history of Louisa Mildmay. Now first published from a series of original letters. In two volumes. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4566
eBooks The court of Alexander: An opera, in two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4467
eBooks An essay, at removing national prejudices, against a Union with England. Part III. By the author of the two firstEssay at removing national prejudices against a Union. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4549
eBooks Observations on the mode of attendance of the surgeons of Edinburgh on the Royal Infirmary: in a letter addressed to the Royal College of Surgeons; by Benjamin Bell. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5540
eBooks Observations on the tussis convulsiva: or hooping cough, as read at the Lyceum Medicum Londinense. ... By John Gale Jones. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5591
eBooks Two dithyrambic odes: I. On enthusiasm. II. To laughter. By the author of Rimes. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5087
eBooks A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands: With notes. [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4988
eBooks An epistle to the author of The four farthing candles: By the author of The Rosciad of C-v-nt-G-rd-n. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3326
eBooks An account of the rise, progress, and state of the London Infirmary: supported by charitable and voluntary subscription, for the relief of sick and diseased manufacturers, seamen in merchant service, and their wives and children, from the first in... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5567
eBooks Essays on the Characteristics: By John Brown, M.A. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4924
eBooks The tutor of truth: By the author of The pupil of pleasure, ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3444
eBooks Letter from Mr. Francis to Lord North, late Earl of Guildford. With an appendix https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4757
eBooks A survey of experimental philosophy, considered in its present state of improvement. Illustrated with cuts. ... By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5373
eBooks A short account of the nature and use of spectacles. In which is recommended, a kind of glass for spectacles, ... By James Ayscough, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5592
eBooks An essay on the study of literature: Written originally in French, by Edward Gibbon, Jun. Esq; Now first translated into English.Essai sur l'étude de la littérature. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4651
eBooks The natural history of British insects: explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, œconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The w... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4809
eBooks Reason the only oracle of man: a compendious system of natural religion https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3160
eBooks The plain dealer: being select essays on several curious subjects: relating to friendship, ... poetry, and other branches of polite literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And now first collected into two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5199
eBooks An essay at removing national prejudices against a union with Scotland. To be continued during the treaty here. Part IIEssay at removing national prejudices against a Union. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3374
eBooks Thespis: or, a critical examination into the merits of all the principal performers belonging to Drury-Lane Theatre https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3446
eBooks A rational account of the cause, nature, and cure of gleets: and other such weaknesses usually attending persons after former cures, self-abuses, &c. By the author of the Practical scheme. This book is given gratis only at the four following place... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5692
eBooks The horse and the olive: or, war and peace. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3316
eBooks The Iliad: of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. [pt.1]Iliad. English https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4374
eBooks Lives. EnglishThe lives of the noble Grecians and Romans https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3155
eBooks Three memorials on French affairs: Written in the years 1791, 1792 and 1793. By the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4215
eBooks Persian eclogues. Written originally for the entertainment of the ladies of Tauris: And now first translated, &c. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5383
eBooks The tragedie of HAMLET, Prince of Denmarke. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5707
eBooks The stage defended, from Scripture, reason, experience, and the common sense of mankind, for two thousand years. Occasion'd by Mr. Law's late pamphlet against stage-entertainments. In a letter to ****** By Mr. Dennis https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4181
eBooks A reply to The grand question debated: fully proving, that the soul of man is, and must be immortal. ... By Ontologos. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5193