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Essays, philosophical, historical, and literary

Essays.

Essays:

The essentials of choir boy training,

Essentials of elocution and oratory

Essentials of English speech and literature;an outline of the origin and growth of the language, with chapters on the influence of the Bible, the value of the dictionary, and the use of the grammar in the study of the English tongue,

Estimations in criticism,

Estimations in criticism,

Euphues, the peripatician

Evangeline.A legitimate spectacular drama in five acts, arranged and adapted for the stage,

An evening in my library among the English poets,

Evenings with a reviewer;or, Macaulay and Bacon,

Evenings with a reviewer;or, Macaulay and Bacon,

Everybody's writing-desk book,

The evolution of the English drama up to Shakespeare,

Excelsior, or, The realms of poesie / by Alastor.

An excursion among the poets.

Exercises in Latin prosody and versification.

Exercises in Latin versification,

The expeditious instructoror, reading, writing and arithmetick made plain and easy. (containing much more in Quantity, and a far greater Variety of Instructions, than any Book of the Kind or Price; and expressed in so easy and familiar a Manner, that Persons of the lowest Capacity may learn, without a Master.) Among many other useful Particulars, are contain'd I. A succinct English Grammar. II. Of Words that are nearly alike in Sound, but are different in Sense and Spelling. III. The Names of the Gods and Goddesses of the Heathens; and of the Muses, Graces, &c. IV. A very particular Account of Stops and Marks: With Directions for their Use, in a Manner entirely New. V. Directions for placing the Accent and Emphasis. VI. Directions for chusing and hardening Quills; for making and mending Pens; and for making and preserving Inks. Vii. Directions for making an Ink for marking Linnen, which will never wash out. Viii. Directions for Writing; by which a Person, though entirely ignorant of that Art, may write a good Hand in twenty-four Hours, without the Assistance of a Master. IX. Directions for those who would write elegantly. X. Directions for Figure-Hand, &c. and a new and easy Short-Hand. XI. A very particular Explanation of Abbreviations in Writing. XII. How to superscribe and begin Letters to Persons to Distinction. XIII. How to make several Sorts of Sealing-Wax and Wafers; and how to take the Impression of any Leaf, for Needle-Work, or Colouring. XIV. Forms of Receipts and Notes, for transacting of Business. XV. Of Arithmetick; and an easy Method of learning it. XVI. Directions to Painters, Stone-Cutters, &c. for painting or cutting Words and Sentences; and how they should spell, and place them with Propriety. XVII. A Collection of Epitaphs, for the Use of Stone-Cutters, &c. Illustrated with a variety of alphabets and copies, in various hands, on copper plates; with Ornaments for the Tops and Bottoms of Pages. Engrav'd from the Writings and Designs of the most Eminent School Masters. The whole is calculated for the use of painters, engravers, stone-cutters, and all Others that would learn expeditiously to Read, Write or cast Accompts.

Explanatory notes and remarks on Milton's Paradise lostBy J. Richardson, father and son. With the life of the author, and a discourse on the poem. By J. R. Sen.

Extracts from the album, at Streatham: or, Ministerial amusements.To which are added, the bulse, a pindaric ode: and jekyll, an eclogue.

Facial speech reading and articulation teaching

Faith and doubt in the century's poets

Famous poems explained;helps to reading with the understanding, with biographical notes of the authors represented,

Father Van's progressive dictionary for versification.

Figurative language in ballad and epic.

The final reliques of Father Prout (The Rev. Francis Mahony)

The fingal of Ossian,an ancient epic poem in six books. Translated from the original Galic language, by Mr. James Macpherson; and new rendered into heroic verse, by Ewen Cameron.

The first and second books of paradise lost.The author John Milton. Printed from the first and second editions collated. The original system of orthography restored; the punctuation corrected and extended. With the various readings: and notes; chiefly rhythmical. By Capel Lofft.

A first book of poetics,for colleges and advanced schools,

First impressions :essays on poetry, criticism, and prosody.

First lessons in speech improvement

The first part of Miscellany poems.Containing variety of new translations of the ancient poets: together with several original poems. By the most eminent hands. Publish'd by Mr. Dryden.

The first principles of English grammar, methodically exhibited and explaiend [sic], ... By Nicholas Salmon, ...

The first printed translations into English of the great foreign classics;a supplement to text-books of English literature.

The first six books of Milton's Paradise lost, rendered into grammatical construction; The Words of the Text being arranged, at the bottom of each Page, in the same natural Order with the Conceptions of the mind; and the Ellipsis properly supplied, without any Alteration in the Diction of the Poem. With notes grammatical, geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition, exhibiting an easy Method of construing, and reading with Judgment, either Prose or verse. Designed for the use of our most eminent schools, and of private Gentlemen and Ladies; and also of Foreigners of Distinction, who would read this admirable Poem with Unstanding and Taste. By the late James Buchanan, Author of the British Grammar, a Regular English Syntax, &c. The Manuscript was left with Dr James Robertson, Professor of Hebrew, who has published it for the benefit of Mr Buchanan's Widow

The [first to the third] tour of Doctor Syntax ...A poem.

The [first to the third] tour of Doctor Syntax ...A poem.

Fisher's grammar improvedor an English grammar in which Fisher's plan is preserved, And the Work made more perfect By various Amendments; In Orthography and Prosody From Sheridan and others; And in Etymology and Syntax Principally from Lowth. By the Rev. J. Wilson, Vicar of Biddulph, Master of the Free Grammar School in Congleton.