The quintessence of English poetry: or, a collection of all the beautiful passages in our poems and plays: ... Collected from some hundred volumes, by the ingenious Tho. Hayward, and other gentlemen. ... In three volumes. ...
Hayward, Thomas,-1779?.
London : printed for Olive Payne; John Millan; Henry Chapelle; and Francis Noble,
1740.
Edited by Thomas Hayward.
First published in 1738 as 'The British muse'.
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