The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With several curious Topicks, and beautiful Passages, never before extracted, from Shakespear, Johnson, Beaumont, Fletcher, and above a Hundred more. The Whole digested Alphabetically under their respective Heads, according to the Order of Time in which they wrote; to shew the gradual Improvements of our Poetry and Language. In three volumes. By Thomas Hayward, Gent. With an historical and critical review of This, and all the Collections of this Kind hitherto published

People / Organizations

• Francis Cogan ("printed for")
• John Nourse ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for F. Cogan, at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, and J. Nourse, at the Lamb without Temple-Bar, M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]

Added name

Hayward, Thomas, -1779?.

Publication year

1738

ESTC No.

T131617

Grub Street ID

180590

Description

3v. ; 12°.

Note

Titlepages in red and black

The review is by W. Oldys

Published in 1740 as 'The quinte-ssence of English poetry'.