The Quintessence of English Poetry [T168447] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 617
- Publication Date:
- 1740
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 3
- ESTC number:
- T168447
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW114834740
- Shelfmark:
- ecco - BL
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Comments:
- FULL TITLE: THE | QUINTESSENCE | OF | English POETRY: | Or, a COLLECTION of all the | BEAUTIFUL PASSAGES | IN OUR | POEMS and PLAYS: | From the Celebrated SPENCER. | The WHOLE Instructive, Moral, and Humour-| our; and adapted to all Degrees of Mankind: | Alphabetically digested under proper Heads, in | Chronological Order of Time. | Collected from many hundred Volumes, by | Several EMINENT HANDS. | To which is prefix'd, | An Alphabetical Catalogue of AUTHORS, POEMS, and | PLAYS quoted in the Collection. Also an Historical | and Critical Review of all the ESSAYS of this Kind hitherto published. | [rule] | In THREE VOLUMES. | [rule] | VOL. I. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for O. PAYNE at [i]Horace's-Head[/i] in [i]Pope's- | Head-Alley[/i], opposite the [i]Royal-Exchange.[/i] | MDCCXL. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: Title page in red and black. PREFATORY MATTER: Dedication 'To The Right Honourable the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' signed Thomas Hayward' (4pp); 'Preface, Containing an Historical and Critical Review of all the Collections of this Kind that were ever published' (pp. [iii]-xxiv); 'A List of the Authors, Poems, and Plays Cited in this Collection' (19pp); Catalogue of 'Books printed for F. Cogan and J. Nourse' (1pp). REFERENCES: MISCELLANY GENRE: printed commonplace book.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1738
- ESTC No:
- T131617
- Volume:
- 1 of 3
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Dedicatee:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Thomas Hayward
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Editor:
- William Oldys
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- ESTC cites Oldys as author of Preface.
- Publisher:
- Oliver Payne
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- I am no enemy to religion
- Page No:
- p.1
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- William Shakespear's Cromwell
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
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