Poets: twenty portraits of writers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

The following poems, writen [sic] by Mr. P---s [i.e. Philips], and but now come to our hands, claim a sort of right to be communicated to the lovers of poetry ... : a supplication for Miss [Grace] Carteret, in the small-pox ... To Miss Georgina, youngest daughter of the Lord Carteret / [Ambrose Philips].

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