The agreeable variety : being a miscellaneous collection, in prose and verse, from the works of the most celebrated authors. In two parts. Viz. Part I. Containing, 1. Instructive Discourses, on the most Useful Subjects, for the happy Conduct of Human Life. 2. Characters of the most Illustrious Personages of both Sexes, of our own, and other Nations: particularly the remarkable Manner of Life of the Excellent Princess of Parma; written by herself, and found among her Papers after her Decease, in the Year 1577. 3. Choice Poems, and Select Passages, extracted from Shakespeare, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Roscommon, Otway, Oldham, Prior, &c. Part II. Containing Original Poems, with sixty Familiar Letters, upon Education, Love, Friendship, &c. By several Eminent Hands. None of which ever before printed. The whole collected and published by a lady.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

J. M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv,[10],338,[2]p. )

Edition:

The third edition.

Other Title:

Agreeable variety

Place of Publication:

London : printed for C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXLII. [1742]

Notes:

With a final advertisement leaf.

A reissue of the first edition, with a different titlepage, and the addition of a dedication leaf signed: J. M.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T61569.

OCLC:

642645943