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Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter

Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678); Madan, Judith (1702-1781)

1645?-1665

Lady Hesther Pulter was the sixth daughter of James Ley, 1st earl of Marlborough. F.1r bears a note of the author being aged 71 in 1667 and dying March or April 1678 aged 82. Bound in reversed calf,...

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Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter

Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678); Madan, Judith

c.1645-1665

A collection of poetry, beginning on flyleaf and then on ff.2r-130v; from back, inverted, on f.1r, 2v-36v, is an incomplete prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda. Detached, previusly inserted matter...

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The agreeable variety : in two parts : containing, first, discourses, characters, and poems, relating to the most useful subjects; and extracted from many worthy authors. Consisting, secondly, of letters, poems, &c. by several private persons, on divers occasions. Never before printed

1717

Reissued in 1724 with new t. p.: The Agreeable variety... collected and published by a lady. London. Printed for A. Bettesworth. Dedication of 1724 ed. signed J. M. Cf. Case, 293(b).

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Gossip in a library

Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)

1893

Contents: Introductory -- Camden's "Britannia" -- A mirror for magistrates --A poet in prison -- Death's duel --Gerard's Herbal -- Pharamond -- A volume of old plays -- A censor of poets -- Lady Winch...

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Gossip in a library

Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)

1892

Contents: Introductory -- Camden's "Britannia" -- A mirror for magistrates --A poet in prison -- Death's duel --Gerard's Herbal -- Pharamond -- A volume of old plays -- A censor of poets -- Lady Winch...

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The common reader

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)

1929

Contents: The common reader.--The Pastons and Chaucer.--On not knowing Greek.--The Elizabethan lumber room.--Notes on an Elizabethan play.--Montaigne.--The Duchess of Newcastle.--Rambling round Evelyn...

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The poems, epistles & satires of Alexander Pope

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Rhys, Ernest (1859-1946)

[1924]

"The collected poems of Alexander Pope with an introduction by Ernest Rhys." -- Added title page [p.i]. "Pope's published works": pages xiii-xv.

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Literary studies (v.1)

Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)

[19--]

Introduction by George Sampson. Bibliography: v. 1, p. xviii.

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Literary studies (v.2)

Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)

[19--]

Introduction by George Sampson. Bibliography: v. 1, p. xviii.

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Of books and humankind : essays and poems presented to Bonamy Dobrée

Butt, John (1906-1965)

1964

Contents: Was Clytaemnestra a liar? / A.N. Jeffares -- The incomparable Lady Ranelagh / K.M. Lynch -- Prologues, epilogues and audience in the restoration theatre / J. Sutherland -- In defence of Moll...

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Whartoniana, or, Miscellanies, in verse and prose

Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685); Plantin, Arabella; Wharton, Philip Wharton Duke of (1698-1731); Curll, Edmund (1675-1747); Norris, John (1657-1711); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Wharton family

1727

With a dedication by E. Curll, which appears to belong rather to the second volume. In it Curll states that the work is a translation from the French, by J. Morgan. Vol. 2 has title: Letters to the ...

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