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The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis, 3. köide

Virgil - 1721 - 456 lehte
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The Spectator ...

1739 - 330 lehte
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The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].

1744 - 348 lehte
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The Spectator: ...

1778 - 378 lehte
...mountebank's ftage, or to be matters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden : yet thefe are they who have the moft admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their flock of fenfe, as they may by reading better books, and by converfatioh with men of judgment, they...
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The Works of the English Poets: Virgil, trans. by Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 408 lehte
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The Works of the English Poets: Virgil, trans. by Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 lehte
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Harrison's British Classicks, 4. köide

1786 - 694 lehte
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The Spectator. ...

1789 - 508 lehte
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., 22. köide

English poets - 1790 - 366 lehte
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 lehte
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