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THE

QUINTESSENCE

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English POETRY:

Or, a COLLECTION of all the

BEAUTIFUL PASSAGES

IN OUR

POEMS and PLAYS:

From the Celebrated SPENCER to 1688.

The WHOLE Inftructive, Moral, and Humour-
ous; and adapted to all Degrees of Mankind :
Alphabetically digefted under proper Heads,
in Chronological Order of Time.

Collected from fome 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: Alfo an Hiftori-
cal and Critical Review of this and all the ESSAYS
of the Kind hitherto published. By Mr. OLDYS.
In THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

OLJ

LONDON:

Printed for OLIVE PAYNE, at Horace's-Head, in Pope's-
Head-Alley, oppofite the Royal-Exchange, in Cornhill;
JOHN MILLAN, oppofite the Admiralty, Charing Cross;
HENRY CHAPELLE, in Grovefnor-Street; and FRANCIS
NOBLE, at Otway's-Head, in St. Martin's-Court, near
Leicester-Fields.

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Right Honourable the Lady

Mary Wortley Montagu.

MADAM,

OT is an honour to the

British Nation, that it has, from time to time, produced fo many illuftri

ous Patrons of the British Mufe;

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