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Total number of records: 1027

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Dryden, John (1631-1700)35
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Poems on affairs of state : from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the abdication of K. James the Second

1703

Page 109 incorrectly numbered 119; no. 225-244, omitted in the paging. Issued bound with "State-poems: continued", 1703, the two parts together comprising Case 211 (1) (f), "a page for page reprint ...

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Remarks on the beauties of poetry

Webb, Daniel (1798)

1762

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Tales from "Blackwood"

[1850?]

The Glenmutchkin railway / by Professor Aytoun. -- Vanderdecken's message home. -- The floating beacon. -- Colonna the painter. -- Napoleon / by J.G. Lockhart. -- The iron shroud / by William Mudford.

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Tales from "Blackwood"

[1851?]

Lazaro's legacy / by Colonel E.B. Hamley. -- A story without a tail / by Dr Maginn.-- Faustus and Queen Elizabeth. -- How I became a yeoman / by Professor Aytoun. -- Devereux hall / by Mrs Southey. --...

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Observations on poetry, especially the epic: occasioned by the late poem upon Leonidas

Pemberton, Henry (1694-1771)

1738

"Leonidas" by Richard Glover.

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Select epistles of Phalaris, the tyrant of Agrigentum. Attempted in English

Pseudo-Phalaris; Phalaris Tyrant of Agrigentum

1718

Not in fact by Phalaris; the attribution is spurious. Reproduction of original from the Huntington Library.

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