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GEORGE W CHILDS.

in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District

of Pennsylvania

A

CRITICAL

DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE,

AND

BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS,

Libing and Deceased,

FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS

TO THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

CONTAINING

THIRTY THOUSAND BIOGRAPHIES AND LITERARY NOTICES,

WITH FORTY INDEXES OF SUBJECTS.

BY

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"THE CHIEF GLORY OF EVERY PEOPLE ARISES FROM ITS AUTHORS."—DE. JOHNSON.

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GEORGE W. CHILDS,

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