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The quintessence of English poetry, or, a collection of all the beautiful passages in our poems and plays, from the celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...

Author: Thomas Hayward; William Oldys
Publisher: London : Printed for Olive Payne, 1740.
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Quintessence of English poetry, or, a collection of all the beautiful passages in our poems and plays, from the celebrated Spencer to 1688 .
London : Printed for Olive Payne [etc.], 1740
(OCoLC)670364770
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Hayward; William Oldys
OCLC Number: 7332899
Notes: Previously published as: The British muse.
Description: 3 volumes ; 17 cm
Responsibility: collected from some hundred volumes, by the ingenious Tho. Hayward, and other gentlemen ; to which is prefix'd, an alphabetical catalogue of authors, poems, and plays quoted in the collection ; also an historical and critical review of this and all the essays of the kind hitherto published, by Mr. Oldys ...

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