The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 - English drama |
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... JOHN MILLAN , oppofite the Admiralty , Charing Cross ; HENRY CHAPELLE , in Grovefnor - Street ; and FRANCIS NOBLE , at Otway's - Head , in St. Martin's - Court , near Leicester - Fields . MDCCXL jus · 773867 PR1171 +42 1740 V. 1 INDIANA ...
... JOHN MILLAN , oppofite the Admiralty , Charing Cross ; HENRY CHAPELLE , in Grovefnor - Street ; and FRANCIS NOBLE , at Otway's - Head , in St. Martin's - Court , near Leicester - Fields . MDCCXL jus · 773867 PR1171 +42 1740 V. 1 INDIANA ...
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... John Bodenham , a gen- tleman undoubtedly ambitious of diftin- guishing himself by the Laconick fingula- rity of his performance . Hence , we fup- pofe it was , that he made it his inviolable rule to admit no quotation of more than one ...
... John Bodenham , a gen- tleman undoubtedly ambitious of diftin- guishing himself by the Laconick fingula- rity of his performance . Hence , we fup- pofe it was , that he made it his inviolable rule to admit no quotation of more than one ...
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... minute particles for him under proper- heads , * A 4 Return from Parnaffus , & c . publickly acted by the Students of St. John's College , Cambridge , 4to , 1606 . heads , and to fubjoin a section of fimiles , The PREFACE . vi.
... minute particles for him under proper- heads , * A 4 Return from Parnaffus , & c . publickly acted by the Students of St. John's College , Cambridge , 4to , 1606 . heads , and to fubjoin a section of fimiles , The PREFACE . vi.
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... . * Reflex . fur la Poetique . Effay of Poetry . ( * ) Preface to his Tranflat . of Rapin on Ariftotle's Poeticks . ( † ) By John Cotgrave , Gent . 8vo , 1655 . poet's name to his extracts throughout his book , nor The PREFACE . xi.
... . * Reflex . fur la Poetique . Effay of Poetry . ( * ) Preface to his Tranflat . of Rapin on Ariftotle's Poeticks . ( † ) By John Cotgrave , Gent . 8vo , 1655 . poet's name to his extracts throughout his book , nor The PREFACE . xi.
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... John in the Hofpital . B B. 410 , 1609 4.to , 1611 Aldwin William , In The Mirrour for Magiftrates . Baron Robert , Efq ; Mirza , a Trag . 8vo , no Date . His Poems , entitled Pocula Caftalia 8vo , 1650 Barrey Lodowick , Efq ; Ram Alley ...
... John in the Hofpital . B B. 410 , 1609 4.to , 1611 Aldwin William , In The Mirrour for Magiftrates . Baron Robert , Efq ; Mirza , a Trag . 8vo , no Date . His Poems , entitled Pocula Caftalia 8vo , 1650 Barrey Lodowick , Efq ; Ram Alley ...
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