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A67158 Country conversations being an account of some discourses that happen'd in a visit to the country last summer, on divers subjects : chiefly of the modern comedies, of drinking, of translated verse, of painting and painters, of poets and poetry. Wright, James, 1643-1713. 1694 (1694) Wing W3693; ESTC R38767 29,396 96

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