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| Title | Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part, Volume 5 Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part, John Dryden |
| Author | John Dryden |
| Publisher | Jacob Tonson, 1704 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 596 pages |
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