The quintessence of English poetry : or, A collection of all the beautiful passages in our poems and plays: from the celebrated Spencer to 1688. The whole instructive moral, and humourous; and adapted to all degrees of mankind: alphabetically digested under proper heads, in chronological order of time. 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. In three volumes
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printed for Olive Payne, at Horace's-Head, in Pope's-Head-Alley, opposite the Royal-Exchange, in Cornhill; John Millan, opposite the Admiralty, Charing-Cross; Henry Chapelle, in Grovesnor-Street; and Francis Noble, at Otway's-Head, in St. Martin's-Court, near Leicester-Fields,
MDCCXI. [1711]
London : printed for O. Payne at Horace's-Head in Pope's-Head-Alley, opposite the Royal-Exchange, MDCCXL. [1740] London : MDCCXI. [1711] |
| Series: | Eighteenth century collections online Part 1.
Eighteenth century collections online Part 2: New editions. |
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