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English poetry - Great Britain - 18th century

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    The electrical eel; or, Gymnotus electricus. Inscribed to the Honourable Members of the R***L S*****Y. By Adam Strong, naturalist

    Perry, James, 1756-1821. | Date: 1777?]
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    St. Paul's Church; or, The protestant ambulators. A burlesque poem

    Ward, Edward, 1667-1731. | Date: 1716
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    The Priest and the lawyer. To the tune of "Derry down, or tantarrara knaves all."

    | Date: 1790?]
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    A Farther and more particular account of a most strange and terrible ghost or apparition of a gentlewoman that appeareth both night and day at Mr Jennings's, in Hand-Alley, in Holborn: giving an account how she first appeared, and frightned the mister, mistress, the servants, and many of the neighbours. Also how several other people set up to watch, among whom were six ministers sent by the Bishop of London. With the prayer which the ministers us'd when they set up to watch

    | Date: 1716
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    Essay on true fashion, or The beauties natural to man. By a Spectator

    | Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]
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