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Page 93
... Latin to him , for the advantage of his conversation ; attended him every afternoon , except on Sundays . Milton , who , in his letter to Hartlib , had declared , that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law ...
... Latin to him , for the advantage of his conversation ; attended him every afternoon , except on Sundays . Milton , who , in his letter to Hartlib , had declared , that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law ...
Page 401
... Latin compositions seem to have had much of his fondness ; for he collected a second volume of the Musae Anglicanae , perhaps for a convenient receptacle , in which all his Latin pieces are inserted , and where his Poem on the Peace has ...
... Latin compositions seem to have had much of his fondness ; for he collected a second volume of the Musae Anglicanae , perhaps for a convenient receptacle , in which all his Latin pieces are inserted , and where his Poem on the Peace has ...
Page 402
... Latin encomium on queen Mary , in the Musae Anglicanae . These verses exhibit all the fondness of friendship ; but ... Latin verses on the peace of Ryswick , which he dedicated to Montague , and which was afterwards called by Smith the ...
... Latin encomium on queen Mary , in the Musae Anglicanae . These verses exhibit all the fondness of friendship ; but ... Latin verses on the peace of Ryswick , which he dedicated to Montague , and which was afterwards called by Smith the ...
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