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became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . ... He was wont , says Sprat , to relate , ' That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar .
became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . ... He was wont , says Sprat , to relate , ' That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar .
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Chorus fears for Adam , and relates Lucifer's rebellion and fall . Act IV . Adam , fallen . Conscience cites them to God's examination , Chorus bewails , and tells the good Adam has lost . Act V. Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise ...
Chorus fears for Adam , and relates Lucifer's rebellion and fall . Act IV . Adam , fallen . Conscience cites them to God's examination , Chorus bewails , and tells the good Adam has lost . Act V. Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise ...
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Wood relates that he was secretary to Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , when he was Chancellor of Cambridge : this is doubted by the other writer , who yet allows the Duke to have been his frequent benefactor . That both these accounts ...
Wood relates that he was secretary to Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , when he was Chancellor of Cambridge : this is doubted by the other writer , who yet allows the Duke to have been his frequent benefactor . That both these accounts ...
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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 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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