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In 1641 he published a treatise of Reformation , in two books , against the established Church ; being willing to help the Puritans , who were , he says , inferior to the Prelates in learning . Hall , bishop of Norwich , had published ...
In 1641 he published a treatise of Reformation , in two books , against the established Church ; being willing to help the Puritans , who were , he says , inferior to the Prelates in learning . Hall , bishop of Norwich , had published ...
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The dedication to this play is dated the year in which the Annus Mirabilis was published . Here appears a strange inconsistency ; but Langbaine affords some help , by relating that the answer to Howard was not published in the first ...
The dedication to this play is dated the year in which the Annus Mirabilis was published . Here appears a strange inconsistency ; but Langbaine affords some help , by relating that the answer to Howard was not published in the first ...
Page 372
In the next year he published Observations on Sorbière's Voyage into England , in a Letter to Mr. Wren . This is a work not ill performed ; but perhaps rewarded with at least its full proportion of praise . In 1668 he published Cowley's ...
In the next year he published Observations on Sorbière's Voyage into England , in a Letter to Mr. Wren . This is a work not ill performed ; but perhaps rewarded with at least its full proportion of praise . In 1668 he published Cowley's ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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