Part 19

Printed for E. CURLL, in Covent-Garden.

I. THE SCHOOL of VENUS: Or, The LADY’s MISCELLANY. Being A COLLECTION of ORIGINAL POEMS, TRANSLATIONS, TALES, and NOVELS, relating to LOVE and GALLANTRY.

VENUS! thy Empire o’er the World extends! To thy soft Charms the whole Creation bends! On Earth, in Streams, thro’ all the rolling Main, The leafy Forest, and the grassy Plain; Thy kindling Warmth, the various Nations find, And rush with Joy to generate their kind. DRYDEN.

Adorn’d with Cuts, by Hogarth. Price 6 s.

II. The ALTAR of LOVE: Or, The Art of Kissing, in all its Varieties. Being a curious Collection of Poems, and other Miscellanies. Design’d for the Improvement of both Sexes. The chastest Ear will be equally entertain’d, and forewarn’d, by a Recital of the alluring Wiles of the Fair Sex; at the same Time that the dishonourable Attacks of Mankind are expos’d, in order to preserve the Ladies Reputation. For, herein, from the Court to the Cottage, the Affair of intriguing Gallantry is fully trac’d through its most intricate Labyrinths, Price 6 s.

III. A NEW MISCELLANY of Original Poems, Translations, and Imitations. Publish’d by Anthony Hammond, Esq; written by the most eminent Hands, viz. Mr Prior, Mr Hughes, Mr Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Mrs Manley, Mrs Fouke, Mrs Centlivre, Mr Amhurst, &c. Price 5 s.

IV. The WORKS of the justly celebrated WILLIAM WALSH, Esq; in Prose and Verse. With some Account of the Author and his Writings; and his Character by Mr Pope. Price 4 s.

V. COURT TALES: Or, MODERN AMOURS. Being the ADVENTURES of some Persons of the First Rank. Faithfully related from the AUTHOR’s own Knowledge of each Transaction. Written by Mrs Grainger.

When Am’rous CHARLES Britannia’s Scepter bore, Such were our Pleasures in the Days of yore, The Nightly Scene of Joy the Park was made, And Love, in Couples, peopled ev’ry Shade: But since at COURT the Rural-Taste is lost, What mighty Sums have Velvet-Couches cost? GAY.

The Second Edition. Price 2 s. 6 d.

VI. Select TALES and NOVELS in Verse. Translated from the French of La Fontaine. By Mr Congreve, Mr. Topham, Mr Harrison, Mr Fenton, Mr Rowe, Mr Prior, Mr Cobb, Mr Humphreys. Adorn’d with Cuts. The Second Edition. Price 5 s.

VII. The WORKS of Monsieur VOITURE, Addressed to Mrs. Blount, by Mr. Pope. Containing, I. Letters and Characters of the most eminent Persons in the Court France. With explanatory Notes by Monsieur Richelieu. II. Alcidalis and Zelida: A Romance written for the Entertainment of Mademoiselle De Rambouillet. III. The Metamorphoses of Ladies into various Flowers. IV. Poems on several Occasions. Translated by the most eminent Hands. 2 Volumes Duodecimo. Price 6 s. sewed up in Blue Paper: or, 7 s. neatly Bound.

Major PACK’s Character of VOITURE and his Writings, viz.

Monsieur VOITURE is, I own, the only Author in the World who can always put me into good Humour. The inimitable Turns of his Wit, even upon the most Barren Subjects; his Droll-Mirth, his Quotations so happily applied, free from any of that Pedantry so offensive in most Others, who mingle the learned Languages with their own; his Skill in that hardest Part of Good-Breeding, Complimenting the Ladies, (where he never runs into Common Place;) and Flattering the Great (where he never descends into Servility or Meanness.) In short, the Generosity as well as Gaiety of his SOUL, runs through all he writes, and makes one not only read him with Admiration but Affection.]

Essay on Study; Pag. 106. of the Second Edition. 8 vo.

Lettres Muscovites: or, Muscovian Letters. Containing an Account of the Form of Government, Customs, and Manners of that Great Empire. Written by a Person of Distinction, and Printed at Paris 1735. Translated by William Musgrave, Esq; Price 5 s.

VIII. The Northern Worthies, or, the LIVES of PETER the Great, Father of his Country, and Emperor of All Russia; and of his Illustrious Empress CATHARINE, the late CZARINA. Likewise of PETER II, and of the Accession and Conduct of the present CZARINA. Translated from the French Original of Monsieur Fontenelle. Price 2 s 6 d.

IX. Post-Office-Intelligence: or, Universal Galantry. Being a Collection of Love-Letters, written by Persons in all Stations, from most Parts of the Kingdom. Publish’d from their Originals return’d into the General Post-Office in London, the Parties to whom they where directed being either dead or remov’d from their usual Places of Abode. Price 3 s.

X. The Works of the justly celebrated William Walsh, Esq; in Verse and Prose. Consisting of his Defence of the Female Sex. Letters amorous and gallant, Satires, Pastorals, Epigrams, &c. With some Account of his Life and Character by Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope. Price 4 s:

XI. Philomela; or, The Poetical Works of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe late of Frome in Somersetshire. With some Account of her Life, Writings, Last Will and Testament. Letters to Lady Hartford, &c. with her Character by Dr. Watts. Price 4 s.

XII. The whole Works of Major Richardson Pack, (late of Bury St. Edmonds in Suffolk) together with his Remains, Life, Last Will, and Testament. Price 9 s.

XIII. A New Miscellany of Original Poems, Translations, and Imitations. By the most eminent Hands. Collected and published by Anthony Hammond Esq; Price 5 s.

XIV. The Poetical Works of the late ingenious Mr. William Pattison of Sidney College, Cambridge. Two Vols. Price 12 s.

XV. The Poetical Works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq; (including his Translation of Calipædia) Price 4 s.

XVI. Poems on several Occasions, by Mr. Addison. With his Dissertation on the Roman Poets. Price 5 s.

XVII. Mr. Philip’s Poems, viz. 1 Blenheim. 2. The Splendid Shilling. 3. Ode to Lord Bolingbroke. 1 s. 6 d.

XVIII. The LIFE and Posthumous Works of Arthur Maynwaring, Esq; containing several Original Pieces and Translations, in PROSE and VERSE. With an Abstract of all his Political Tracts. Price 5 s.

XIX. The LIFE and WORKS of Walter Moyle, Esq; published by himself. Price 5 s.