THE

QUINTESSENCE

OF

English POETRY:

Or, a COLLECTION of all the

BEAUTIFUL PASSAGES

IN OUR
POEMS and PLAYS:

:
From the Celebrated SPENCER,
The Whole Instructive, Moral, and Humour-

ous; and adapted to all Degrees of Mankind :
Alphabetically digested under proper Heads, in
Chronological Order of Time.
Collected from many hundred Volumos, by

Several EMINENT HANDS,

To which is prefix'd,
An Alphabetical Catalogue of Authors, Poéms, and

Plays quoted in the Collection. Also an Historical
and Critical Review of all the Essays of this Kind
hitherto published.

In THREE VOLUME?,

VOL III.

LONDON:
Printed for O. PAYNE at Horace's-Head in Pope's
Head- Alley, opposite the Royal-Exchange.

11 х

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