Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, Volume 6F. C. & J. Rivington, 1812 - Bibliography |
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... Person's Varieties Joshua Poole Francis and Walter Davison Robert Chamberlayne William Browne Commendatory Verses to Browne's Britannia's Pastorals , now first printed Poems of Love and Drollery The Loyal Garland Bishop Bedell Thomas ...
... Person's Varieties Joshua Poole Francis and Walter Davison Robert Chamberlayne William Browne Commendatory Verses to Browne's Britannia's Pastorals , now first printed Poems of Love and Drollery The Loyal Garland Bishop Bedell Thomas ...
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... who are the sacred poet Fro Brittons Homer nephew to Payne Roet . Sic officio dexaiw conatus est FRANC . JAMES , Art , Bac . Nov. Coll . Socius . FROM FROM PERSON'S VARIETIES . 4ta . 1635 . OF PERSON'S 50 POETICAL EXTRACTS .
... who are the sacred poet Fro Brittons Homer nephew to Payne Roet . Sic officio dexaiw conatus est FRANC . JAMES , Art , Bac . Nov. Coll . Socius . FROM FROM PERSON'S VARIETIES . 4ta . 1635 . OF PERSON'S 50 POETICAL EXTRACTS .
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William Beloe. FROM PERSON'S VARIETIES . 4ta . 1635 . OF PERSON'S VARIETIES . THE lawyer here may learn divinity , The divine , lawes or faire astrology , The dammarel respectively to fight , The duellist to court a mistress right . Such ...
William Beloe. FROM PERSON'S VARIETIES . 4ta . 1635 . OF PERSON'S VARIETIES . THE lawyer here may learn divinity , The divine , lawes or faire astrology , The dammarel respectively to fight , The duellist to court a mistress right . Such ...
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... person . V. ON THE AUTHOR OF BRITANNIAS PEERLESSE PASTORALLS . CEASE skilfull Orpheus , whose mellifluous straynes Have earst made stones and trees skip ore the playnes , A sweeter harmonye invites our eares Than ere was sent from the ...
... person . V. ON THE AUTHOR OF BRITANNIAS PEERLESSE PASTORALLS . CEASE skilfull Orpheus , whose mellifluous straynes Have earst made stones and trees skip ore the playnes , A sweeter harmonye invites our eares Than ere was sent from the ...
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... person . He seems , however , to have had a judge of a very different tempera- ment from the wretch who tried Savage , and he was acquitted . He was afterwards counted as a royalist and a wit , and on the King's Restoration 66 was made ...
... person . He seems , however , to have had a judge of a very different tempera- ment from the wretch who tried Savage , and he was acquitted . He was afterwards counted as a royalist and a wit , and on the King's Restoration 66 was made ...
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