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Didactic poetry, English - Early works to 1800

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    Fashion; or, The art of making breeches An heroi-satiri-didactic poem. By Solomon Irony, Esq. [Two lines of quotations].

    Irony, Solomon. | Date: 1800
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    Moral essays , in four epistles. By Alexander Pope, Esq.

    Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. | Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]
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    An address to the bachelors. By a Bird at Bromsgrove

    Crane, John, of Bromsgrove. | Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]
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    The Wat'ry God. To which is added, high Jenny high. The cold winter night. The young man's petition. The Nymph's reply.

    | Date: 1799
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    The english orator . Books the second and third. By the Rev. Richard Polwhele, translator of Theocritus, &c.

    Richard Polwhele | Date: [1787?]
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