Nimble & quick; pick and choose where you will, here is something that will please every body : Containing the humours of the age; being whimsical, witty, diverting, comical, and useful remarks, on the virtues and vices of the times.

Nimble and quick. Pick and chuse where you will : Here is something to fit and please every body. Containing The humours of the age, being whimsical, witty, diverting, and comical. With useful remarks on the virtues and vices of the times.

Nimble and quick. Pick and chuse where you will : ... Containing the humours of the age being whimsical, witty, diverting, and comical, with useful remarks on the virtues and vices of the times.
Published: (1770)

The Pleasing moralist: or, Universal portrait of life : An entertaining collection of histories: wherein the passions, foibles, and follies of mankind are delineated and expressed in their proper colours: virtue is set forth in the most amiable light, and vice exposed in its natural deformity.
Published: (1779)

The Whimsical jester; or, Something new : Calculated for the amusement and instruction of persons of every description. Containing the most lively salies of wit ever displayed through the medium of frolicsome jokes, smart repartees, pleasant memoirs, droll anecdotes, strange oddities, humorous adventures, noble sentiments, &c. &c. The whole written in a style much superior to works under similar titles.

The way to please him : Or The history of Lady Sedley: by the author of The way to lose him. In two volumes.
by: Author of The way to lose him
Published: (1773)

Picking and choosing : essays on prose /
by: Kizer, Carolyn
Published: (1995)

The History witty questions, and answers, of that noted philosopher : The miller of Whittingham Mill, and Bessy Puslem his wife. Which will entertain you with many comical jests and jibbs, for the amusment of winter night, both diverting and curious.
Published: (1793)

The new novelist's magazine; or, Entertaining library of pleasing and instructive histories, adventures, tales, romances, and other agreeable and exemplary little novels.
Published: (1787)

The Theatrical olio; or, Thespian Jester : Being an entertaining selection of droll anecdotes, pleasing stories, funny jokes, bon mots, epigrams, whimsical adventures, &c. &c. related by several eminent performers.

Fox be nimble /
by: Marshall, James, 1942-1992
Published: (1990)

The Most pleasing and delightful history of Reynard the fox, and Reynardine his son : In two parts. With morals to each chapter, explaining what appears doubtful or allegorical: and every chapter illustrated with a curious device, or picture, representing to the eye all the material passages. To which is added, the history of Cawwood the rook: or, the assembly of birds: with the several speeches they made to the eagle, in hopes to have the government in his absence: how the rook was banish'd; with the reason why crafty fellows are call'd rooks. Together with morals and expositions on every chapter.

The most pleasing and delightful history of Reynard the fox, and Reynardine his son : In two parts. With morals to each chapter, explaining what appears doubtful, or allegorical: illustrated with a curious device, or picture, representing to the eye all the material passages. To which is added, The history of Cawood the rook: or, the assembly of birds: with the several speeches they made to the eagle, in hopes to have the government in his absence: how the rook was banish'd; with the reason why crafty fellows are called rooks. Together with morals and expositions on every chapter.

The most pleasing and delightful history of Reynard the fox, and Reynardine his son : In two parts. With morals to each chapter, explaining what appears doubtful, or allegorical, illustrated with a curious device, or picture, representing to the eye all the material passages. To which is added, the history of Cawood the rook: or, the assembly of birds: with the several speeches they made to the eagle, in hopes to have the government in his absence: how the rook was banish'd; with the reason why crafty fellows are called rooks together with morals and expositions on every chapter.

Choice scraps, historical and biographical, consisting of pleasing stories and diverting anecdotes, most of them short to prevent their being tiresome : Comprehending much useful information and innocent amusement, for young minds. Embellished with copper-plate cuts.
Published: (1791)

Choice scraps, historical and biographical, consisting of pleasing stories and diverting anecdotes, most of them short to prevent their being tiresome : Comprehending much useful information and innocent amusement, for young minds. Embellished with copper-plate cuts.
Published: (1790)

Jack be nimble : a novel.
by: Cuomo, George
Published: (1963)

Duty of Man, entracted from scripture, iIlustrated by descriptions of virtue and vice, promises and threatenings. &c. &c. &c. in the words of Scripture.

The friends; or, The contrast between virtue and vice : A Tale. Designed for the improvement of youth. By Elizabeth Griffin, author of the selector, moral amusements, &c. &c.
by: Griffin, Elizabeth, active 1799
Published: (1800)

The Winter-evening tales: or Diverting amusements. Being a choice collection of entertaing stories.

The nimble man : a novel of the Menagerie /
by: Golden, Christopher
Published: (2004)

The book of oddities; or, Wonderful story-teller : Containing an uncommon collection of curious stories, which may be valued for their being queer, odd, strange, amazing, whimsical, comic absurd, out o' th' way, and unaccountable. The whole calculated to promote the mirth, and excite the wonder and astonishment of all the sons and daughters of adam. By Jack Strange.
by: Strange, Jack
Published: (1775)

The nimble reader : literary theory and children's literature /
by: McGillis, Roderick
Published: (1996)

Lucretia; or, Virtue the best dowry : In two volumes. _.

The Welch wedding : How Shon ap Morgan rode up to London on a goat to buy a wife, - his comical courtship & marriage, - his marrying a cotton twister in a barn, Taffy, thinking it an English church- the comical wedding dinner - Taffy was choaked with eating toasted cheese, and buried at Bethuall green.- His last will where he leaves every body something.- And the Welshman's inventory.

The history of Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded : Abridged from the works of Samuel Richardson, Esq.
by: Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761

Killigrew's jests : or, A pocket companion for the wits. Being a choice collection of merry conceits, facetious drolleries, humorous waggeries, smart repartees, pleasant jokes, clenchers, closures, bon mots, and humbugs; comic stories, notable puns, witty quibbles, and ridiculous bulls. To which are added, Mr. Puzzlewit's Gimcracks; or, A long string of out-o'th' way conundrums, diverting rebusses, poignant epigrams, odd and uncommon epitaphs, &c. &c. All calculated to promote inoffensive mirth, and divers good company with elegance and taste. Containing more in number, and greater variety, than any book of the kind yet published. Humbly inscribed to the choice spirits of the age. By Ferdinando Killigrew, Esq; the world's a jest.
by: Killigrew, Ferdinando
Published: (1759)

The history of Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded : Abridged from the works of S. Richardson, Esquire, adorned with cuts.
by: Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761

Drury-Lane in tears : Or, The ladies of pleasure in mourning. Being a full and genuine account of the life intrigues, and merry transactions, of that famous and well known pick-pocket Jane Webb, otherwise Janny Diver who is to be transported for picking a lady's pocket in St. Paul's Cathedral. Wherein is related an historical account of her education under that infamous old Bawd Mother Needham, and how she set up for herself, by picking a nobleman's pocket. Also a merry description of the whores, bauds, pimps, and bullies. Together with her advice to all persons of both sexes, as London apprentices, town maids, & country wenches, to which is added, a certain method to prevent gentlemen or ladies from having their pocketspick'd.
Published: (1740)

The New Atalantis, for the year 1713. Or, Secret memoirs and manners of sundry persons of quality of both sexes : Containing, I. Love intrigues: or, The amours of Bosvil and Galesia. II. The sick lady's cure: or, The comical adventure of Strephon and Sylvia; a city intrigue. III. The history of the Yorkshire gentry; particularly the amours of Melissa. IV. The Oxford Act; with the several speeches and lampoons upon that occasion. V. Cambridge intrigues, with a key inserted. VI. Diverting miscellanies. By Dr. Swift.
Published: (1714)

Injur'd innocence: or, Virtue in distress : An affecting narrative, founded on facts. From the French of M. D'Arnaud.
by: Arnaud, François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d', 1718-1805

Injur'd innocence; or, Virtue in distress : An affecting narrative, founded on facts. From the French of M. D'Arnaud.
by: Arnaud, François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d', 1718-1805

The school of virtue : A novel, on a new plan, inscribed to Her Majesty, by a Gentleman of the Temple. In two volumes.
by: Gentleman of the Temple
Published: (1787)

The comical history of the life and death of Mumper, generalissimo of King Charles IId's dogs. Written by Heliotropolis, secretary to the emperor of the moon.
by: Heliotropolis
Published: (1704)

The Right, pleasant and diverting history of fortunates, and his two sons : In two parts. I. Containing an account of his noble birth, remarkable travels, and strange adventures, in many kingdoms; how he obtained a purse, which supplas printed] in English, by T.C.
Published: (1752)

Injured innocence; or, Virtue in distress : An affecting narrative, founded on facts, containing the history of Miss Adams and Lord Whatley. By his Lordship's Chaplain.
by: His Lordship's chaplain
Published: (1783)

Injured innocence, or, Virtue in distress : An affecting narrative, founded on facts. Containing the history of Miss Adams and Lord Whately. By his Lordship's Chaplain.
by: His Lordship's chaplain