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| Title | Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes ... Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes, Joseph Johnson |
| Author | William Cowper |
| Contributor | Joseph Johnson |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1793 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 18 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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