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Bibliographic information
| Title | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Publisher | John Morphew, 1711 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 2 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 416 pages |
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