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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... nights , with gloom and void : In fine , fagacity to discover the grofs and innumerable errors of the prefs ; fide- lity , not to obtrude the officious alterations of an editor , under the pretence of restore- ing the sense of an author ...
... nights , with gloom and void : In fine , fagacity to discover the grofs and innumerable errors of the prefs ; fide- lity , not to obtrude the officious alterations of an editor , under the pretence of restore- ing the sense of an author ...
Page xxx
... Night - Cap , a Tra . Com . 4to , 1661 King John and Matilda , a Trag . 4to , 1655 This Author wrote in the Reign of Charles I. Davies Sir John , Knt . Attorney - General in Ireland , under James I. Author of feveral Works in Poetry and ...
... Night - Cap , a Tra . Com . 4to , 1661 King John and Matilda , a Trag . 4to , 1655 This Author wrote in the Reign of Charles I. Davies Sir John , Knt . Attorney - General in Ireland , under James I. Author of feveral Works in Poetry and ...
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... Night , a Trag . 4to , 1686 The Marriage 410 , 1664 Ferrers George , In the Mirrour for Magistrates . Field Nathaniel . Amends for Ladies , with the Merry Pranks of Moll Cut Purfe ; or , The Humour of Roaring , a Com . 4to , 1639 Ford ...
... Night , a Trag . 4to , 1686 The Marriage 410 , 1664 Ferrers George , In the Mirrour for Magistrates . Field Nathaniel . Amends for Ladies , with the Merry Pranks of Moll Cut Purfe ; or , The Humour of Roaring , a Com . 4to , 1639 Ford ...
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... Com . Merchant of Venice , a Tra . Com . Merry Wives of Windfor , a Com . Macbeth , a Trag . Midfummer Night's Dream , a Com . Much ado about Nothing , a Com . Sir Sir John Oldcastle , the good Lord Cobham , his Poems and Plays .
... Com . Merchant of Venice , a Tra . Com . Merry Wives of Windfor , a Com . Macbeth , a Trag . Midfummer Night's Dream , a Com . Much ado about Nothing , a Com . Sir Sir John Oldcastle , the good Lord Cobham , his Poems and Plays .
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... Night ; or , Moft of the above Plays of this Author are extracted from the accurate Edition of Mr. Theobald . Shakespear , and W. Rowley . Birth of Merlin ; or , The Child has found his Father , a Tra . Com . Shakespear , Beaumont , and ...
... Night ; or , Moft of the above Plays of this Author are extracted from the accurate Edition of Mr. Theobald . Shakespear , and W. Rowley . Birth of Merlin ; or , The Child has found his Father , a Tra . Com . Shakespear , Beaumont , and ...
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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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