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The compilers of the Latin dictionary , printed at Cambridge , had the use of those collections in three folios ; but what was their fate afterwards is not known . To compile a history from various authors , when they can only be ...
The compilers of the Latin dictionary , printed at Cambridge , had the use of those collections in three folios ; but what was their fate afterwards is not known . To compile a history from various authors , when they can only be ...
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About this time Elwood the quaker , being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him , for the advantage of his conversation ; attended him every afternoon , except on Sundays . Milton , who , in his letter to Hartlib ...
About this time Elwood the quaker , being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him , for the advantage of his conversation ; attended him every afternoon , except on Sundays . Milton , who , in his letter to Hartlib ...
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He composed in Latin several books on Plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of Herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses ...
He composed in Latin several books on Plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of Herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Robert Montagu |
| Publisher | Folio Society, 1965 |
| Length | 420 pages |
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