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RNYG.779.247
29 Dec 1779:22,23 (339)
Literary Amusements, &c.
(Which having passed the ordeal terrors at the several
watering-places) are, with deference, offered for the
divertisement of the Military Gentlemen, now completely
hutted in their several snug Hivernments.
Twiss's Travels thro'Spain and Portugal, Sterne's Letters,
Eliza Warwick, The Wedding Ring, Samuel Johnson's muleish
Journey thro' Scotland, Marmontel's Incas, or Kings of Peru,
The Excursion, The Sylph, Madam de Cruiz Letters, The Pupil
of Pleasure,. . . [19 lines listing books of letters,
travels, memoirs, histories, criticsm] Gray's Works, with
his matchless Elegy . . . [15 lines] Paul Whitehead's
admired Poems, The Parliamentary Characters--the inns and
outs included, Evalina, by Miss Burney, a pullet of 17, The
Bath Guide and Election Ball, The Diaboliad, and the First
of April, Mr. Pulteney's Considerations on public Affairs.
Plays.
The Rivals, by Sheridan, The Fathers, The Cozeners, Nabob,
Devil on Two Sticks, Maid of Bath, Maid of Kent, Percy,
Battle of Hastings, Alfred, Fashionable Lover, Honest
Yorkshireman, Haunch of Venison, Tancred and Sigismunda,
Romeo and Juliet, George Barnwell, The Lottery, The Revenge,
The Law of Lombardy, Know your own Mind, Buthred, The
Songster's Companion, a new collection of Chancons.
Maxims for playing well the Game of Whist, the Occonomy of
Love, by Dr. Armstrong, Mr. Tickel's Anticipation of the
King's Speech.
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