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| Title | Horae Tennysonianae: sive, Eclogae e Tennysono : latine redditae |
| Author | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson |
| Editor | Alfred John Church |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1870 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 139 pages |
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