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796:, English writer and bishop (died
737:A New Miscellany of Original Poems
543:A New Collection of Original Poems
465:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
451:A Collection of Curious Discourses
358:Human Nature in its Fourfold State
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487:Histoire d'Henriette d'Angleterre
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960:, English poet (born
881:Madeleine de Puisieux
698:The Imperial Captives
687:The Half-Pay Officers
646:The Siege of Damascus
583:Simon Tyssot de Patot
506:Streams From Hellicon
422:Memoirs of a Cavalier
668:L'Amour et la vérité
483:Madame de La Fayette
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404:The Fair Circassian
663:Pierre de Marivaux
515:The Iliad of Homer
492:Delarivière Manley
441:All for the Better
333:Vox Populi Vox Dei
321:Gulliver's Travels
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