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GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.
By Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands. VOL. IV.
Contains the LIVES OF
Motteux
Manley Mrs.
Needler
Hughes
Prior
Centlivre Mrs.
Brady
Stepney
Pack
Dawes Arch. York
Congreve
Vanbrugh
Steele
Marvel
Thomas Mrs.
Fenton
Booth
Sewel
Hammond
Eusden
Eachard
Oldmixon
Welsted
Smyth More
Dennis
Granville L. Lansdowne
Gay
Philip D. Wharton
Codrington
Ward
L'Estrange
Smith Edmund
De Foe
Rowe Mrs.
Yalden
Mitchel
Ozell
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Just Published,
Dedicated to the Right Honourable PHILIP Earl of CHESTERFIELD.
Correctly printed in a neat Pocket Volume (Price Bound Three
Shillings,)
The Second Edition of
LES MOEURS; or, MANNERS. Accurately Translated from the French.Wherein the Principles of Morality, or Social Duties, viz. Piety,Wisdom, Prudence, Fortitude, Justice, Temperance, Love, Friendship,Humanity, &c. &c. are described in all their Branches; the Obligationsof them shewn to consist in our Nature, and the Enlargement of themstrongly enforc'd. Here Parents are taught, that, giving Birth toa Child, scarcety entitles them to that honourable Name, without astrict Discharge of Parental Duties; the Friend will find, there are athousand other Decorums, besides the doing of a Favour, to entitle himto the tender Name of Friend; and the Good natur'd Man will find,he ought to extend that Quality beyond the Bounds of his ownNeighbourhood or Party.
The Whole wrote in a manner entirely New and Entertaining, andenliven'd with real Characters, drawn from life, and fited to instillthe Principles of all Social Virtues into tender Minds.
Printed for W. Johnston at the Golden-Ball in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
THE LIVES OF THE POETS.
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A French gentleman, born and educated at Rohan, in Normandy. He cameover into England, was a considerable trader, and resided here manyyears. He is said to have possessed no inconsiderable share of wit,and humour; and, besides a translation of Don Quixote, several Songs,Prologues and Epilogues, together with a Poem on Tea, dedicated tothe Spectator, (see Vol. VII. Numb. 552) he is author of the followingdramatic pieces.
1. Love's a Jest, a Comedy; acted at the new Theatre, in littleLincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1696. In the two scenes, where love is made ajest, some passages are taken from Italian writers.
2. The Loves of Mars and Venus; a Masque set to Music, performedat the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1696; dedicated to colonelCodrington. The story from Ovid.
3. The Novelty, or every Act a Play; consisting of Pastoral, Comedy,Masque, Tragedy, and Farce, after the Italian manner; acted at theTheatre in little Lincoln's-Inn Fields 1697.
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