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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... never looked into , but take upon truft wherever they find them . Some have been fo careless as to borrow paffages from those who stole them : And all , especially our late compilers , have neglected even to look into the many excellent ...
... never looked into , but take upon truft wherever they find them . Some have been fo careless as to borrow paffages from those who stole them : And all , especially our late compilers , have neglected even to look into the many excellent ...
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... never been quoted in this manner , and perhaps , little obferved before . He has not only endea- voured to fupply the omiffion of the au- thors , from whom this collection is taken , whose works might eafily have been had , as they are ...
... never been quoted in this manner , and perhaps , little obferved before . He has not only endea- voured to fupply the omiffion of the au- thors , from whom this collection is taken , whose works might eafily have been had , as they are ...
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... Never feen by any Writers on our Dramatic Poets . Carew Lady Elizabeth . Mariam , the Fair Queen of Jewry , her Tragedy . Carew Thomas , Efq ; His Poems , 3d Edit . Coelum Britannicum , a Mafque , 4to , 1613 8vo , 1651 at Whitehall . 8 ...
... Never feen by any Writers on our Dramatic Poets . Carew Lady Elizabeth . Mariam , the Fair Queen of Jewry , her Tragedy . Carew Thomas , Efq ; His Poems , 3d Edit . Coelum Britannicum , a Mafque , 4to , 1613 8vo , 1651 at Whitehall . 8 ...
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... never vex'd , a pleasant Comedy . 4to , 1632 Rowley Samuel , Gent . Noble Spanish Soldier ; or , A Contract broken juftly revenged , a Trag . 4to , 1634 Rutter Jofeph , Efq ; Shepherds Holiday , a Paftoral 800 , 1635 .. Tra . Com . S ...
... never vex'd , a pleasant Comedy . 4to , 1632 Rowley Samuel , Gent . Noble Spanish Soldier ; or , A Contract broken juftly revenged , a Trag . 4to , 1634 Rutter Jofeph , Efq ; Shepherds Holiday , a Paftoral 800 , 1635 .. Tra . Com . S ...
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... never call'd in doubt , That time their works fhould ever fo confound , Lie like confufed heaps as under ground ; And what their ignorance esteem'd fo holy , The wifer ages do account as folly . Samuel Daniel's Rofamund . ( Weary'd with ...
... never call'd in doubt , That time their works fhould ever fo confound , Lie like confufed heaps as under ground ; And what their ignorance esteem'd fo holy , The wifer ages do account as folly . Samuel Daniel's Rofamund . ( Weary'd with ...
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The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... William Oldys,Thomas Hayward No preview available - 2016 |
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