THE

QUINTESSENCE

O F

English POETRY:

Or, a COLLECTION of all the
BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE:

IN OUR

POEMS and PLAYS:
From the Celebrated SPENC

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 many hundred Volumus,
Sevel EMINENT HANDS.

To which is prefix'd,

An Alphabetical Catalogue of AUTHORS, POEMS, and
PLAYS quoted in the Collection. Also an Hiftorical
and Critical Review of all the ESSAYS of this Kind
hitherto published.

In THREE VOLUMES,

VOL I.

LONDON:

Printed for O. PAYNE at Horace's-Head in Pope's -
Head-Alley, oppofite the Royal-Exchange.
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The most comprehensive and exact common-place of the works of our most eminent poets throughout the reign of Queen Elizabeth and afterwards.

ENGLISH POETRY.

WARTON'S HIST. OF

TO THЕ

: Honourable the Lady

Wortley Montagu.
NEW YORK
Pasic

DAM,

T is an honour to the British Nation, that it has, from time to time, produced fo many illuftrious Patrons of the British Mufe;