Hayward

THE

QUINTESSENCE

O F

English POETRY:

Or, a COLLECTION of all the
BEAUTIFUL PASSAGES

IN OUR

POEMS and PLAYS:

From the Celebrated SPENCER,

The WHOLE Inftructive, Moral, and Humour-
ous; and adapted to all Degrees of Mankind:
Alphabetically digested under proper Heads, in
Chronological Order of Time.

Collected from many hundred Volumes, by
Several EMINENT HANDS.

To which is prefix'd,

An Alphabetical Catalogue of AUTHORS, POEMs, and
PLAYS quoted in the Collection. Also an Hiftorical
and Critical Review of all the ESSAYS of this Kind
hitherto published.

In THREE VOLUMES,

VOL III.

LONDON:

Printed for O. PAYNE at Horace's-Head in Pope's
Head-Alley, oppofite the Royal-Exchange.
M DCC XL.