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EMINENT BRITISH POETS,

CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED

FROM CHAUCER TO BURNS,

WITH CRITICISMS ON THEIR WORKS, SELECTED FROM
THE MOST DISTINGUISHED WRITERS.

INTENDED FOR TEACHERS, AND THE HIGHER CLASSES IN SCHOOLS.

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since none can be more delightful or more useful, nor can more certainly
enchain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction
to every diversity of condition.-JOHNSON.

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DUBLIN:

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FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE,

1854.