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RNYG.778.129
5 Dec 1778:33 (228)
Pour Passer le Tems. The following pieces, published some
months ago in London, afford amusement, intelligence and
improvement. The long interval since a supply of new books,
magazines and other pamphlets, have been received from
England, will apologize for re-advertising these bagatelles.
In such an exigence if we can't snow white, we must e'en
snow away brown.
The Pupil of Pleasure,
By Courtney Melmoth, a novel that has sold rapidly
price One Dollar.
The Englishman's Fortnight at Paris,
Or the art of ruining a man's self in fourteen days;
Price Six Shillings York.
The Diaboliad
Characteristic of many fashionable persons. The author of
this piece is esteemed the Whitehead or Churchill of the
present time. Five shillings.
The Election Ball By Mr. Anstey, author of the Bath Guide,
the best writer extant in this cast. A very pleasant 4s
worth.
A Monstrous Good Lounge, Together with Yorick's Skull,
Or College Oscitations.
Reveries in the Shandean Measure. Five
The Sublime & Beautiful of Scripture,
By Courtney Melmoth, author of the Pupil of Pleasure,
Liberal Opinions, &c. &c. One Dollar.
Purchased and read by both Christians and Freethinkers.
The Battle of Hastings. 4s.
A new Tragedy, by Mr. Cumberland.
Alfred, King of England, 4s.
Another new Tragedy.
These tragedies have passed the ordeal, ran in full favour,
some scores of nights, and are now entered in the manager's
books, amongst the most popular stock plays.
To be had of Mr. Rivington, and of Messrs. Berry and Rogers.
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