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Including Translations ... 3 3433 07602856 6 THE BRITISH POETS . INCLUDING TRANSLATIONS . IN ONE HUNDRED. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES Front Cover.
Including Translations ... 3 3433 07602856 6 THE BRITISH POETS . INCLUDING TRANSLATIONS . IN ONE HUNDRED. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES Front Cover.
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Including Translations ... THE BRITISH POETS . INCLUDING TRANSLATIONS . IN ONE HUNDRED VOLUMES . XVI . MILTON , VOL I. STOR LIBR \ R } NEW - YORK CHISWICK : Printed by C. Whittingham , COLLEGE HOUSE ; FOR J. CARPENTER , J. BOOKER ...
Including Translations ... THE BRITISH POETS . INCLUDING TRANSLATIONS . IN ONE HUNDRED VOLUMES . XVI . MILTON , VOL I. STOR LIBR \ R } NEW - YORK CHISWICK : Printed by C. Whittingham , COLLEGE HOUSE ; FOR J. CARPENTER , J. BOOKER ...
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... Poets . By Addison ... Address to Great Britain . From Thomson's Summer ... Dr. Johnson's Prologue to the Mask of Comus . Acted at Drury Lane Theatre , April 5 , 1750 ; for the Benefit of Milton's Grand - daughter From Gray's Progress ...
... Poets . By Addison ... Address to Great Britain . From Thomson's Summer ... Dr. Johnson's Prologue to the Mask of Comus . Acted at Drury Lane Theatre , April 5 , 1750 ; for the Benefit of Milton's Grand - daughter From Gray's Progress ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.