The Muses choice, or, The merry fellow : being a collection of wit and humour, diversified with an uncommon variety of merry tales, pointed satires, pastoral eclogues, humourous descriptions, comic characters in high and low life, songs, English, Welch, Scots and Irish, rebusses on drinking glasses, &c. epigrams, smart and tart, epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. : all calculated for the improvement and diversion of the young and the gay, the sportive and facetious, and suited to promote mirth in good company, or divert a melancholy hour / extracted, partly, from the works of the most celebrated authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from originals, taken from private manuscripts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Congreve, William, 1670-1729.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Humorous poetry, English.

Genre:

Poetical miscellanies -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 140 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

The merry fellow.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for R. Whitworth ..., J. Warcus ..., R. Richards ..., W. Mynors ... and W. Heard ..., 1754.

OCLC:

39334406