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Anglistica & Americana

A Series of Reprints Selected by
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Karl Schneider and Marvin Spevack

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GEORG OLMS VERLAGSBUCHHANDLUNG
HILDESHEIM

THEOPHILUS CIBBER

The Lives of the Poets of
Great Britain and Ireland

(1753)

Vol. II

1968

GEORG OLMS VERLAGSBUCHHANDLUNG
HILDESHEIM

Note

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THE

LIVES

OF THE

POETS

OF

Great Britain and Ireland.

Compiled from ample Materials scattered in a Varietyof Books, and especially from the MS.Notes of the late ingenious Mr. Coxeter andothers, collected for this Design,

By Mr. CIBBER, and other Hands.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

Printed for R. Griffiths, at the Dunciad inSt. Paul's Church-Yard.


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Volume II.

Contains the

LIVES

OF