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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],140p.,plate )

Other Title:

Muses choice

Place of Publication:

London : printed for R. Whitworth, at the Feathers, in the Poultry; J. Warcus, at the Indian-Queen, opposite the Mansion-House ; R. Richards, next Barnard's-Inn, Holborn ; W. Mynors, at the Corner of Chancery-Lane, Holborn ; and W. Heard,at the Philobiblian's-Library, Piccadilly, 1754.

Notes:

Verse.

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling and Six-Pence stich'd.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N10370.

OCLC:

642108371