Anonymous, The Academy of Pleasure (1656)
Full Text
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Date
1656
Author
Book title
The Academy of Pleasure. Furnished with all kinds of
Complementall Letters, Discourses, and Dialogues; with
variety of new Songs, Sonets, and witty Inventions. Teaching
all sorts of Men, Maids, Widows, &c. to Speak and Write
wittily, and to bear themselves gracefully for the attaining
of their desired ends: how to discourse and demean
themselves at Feasts and merry-Meetings at home and abroad,
in the company of friends or strangers. How to Retort,
Quibble, Jest or Joke, and to return an ingenious Answer
upon any occasion whatsoever. Also, A Dictionary of all the
hard English words expounded. With a Poeticall Dictionary.
With other Conceits very pleasant and delightfull, never
before extant
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Stafford and William Gilbertson
Transcription source
Bodleian
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
poetry
Summary
(a) "The Muses Expositor: Or, A Poeticall Dictionary, For Information of the meer English Reader" (pp. 109-28);
(b) "A playster of Priscians pate. An Appendix To The Academy of Pleasure. Containing An Alphabeticall Explanation of Hard Words, For Instruction of the Weaker sort of Capacities" (pp. 129-38)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: (a) Faunus, One of the Wood Gods, sometimes taken for Robin Good-Fellow; one of that name King of the Latines, who first erected Temples, was worshipped with Divine Honours, of whom all Temples were called Fanes. (b) ADulate] flatter, or cogge
sample: (a) Faunus, One of the Wood Gods, sometimes taken for Robin Good-Fellow; one of that name King of the Latines, who first erected Temples, was worshipped with Divine Honours, of whom all Temples were called Fanes. (b) ADulate] flatter, or cogge
Alston
III.i.454
Wing
A 159
Other editions
1665: Wing A160 (Alston III.i.455)
