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Page 356
... probably admitted into the university in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old . His reputation for literature in his college was such as has been told ; but the indecency and licentiousness of his behaviour drew upon him ...
... probably admitted into the university in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old . His reputation for literature in his college was such as has been told ; but the indecency and licentiousness of his behaviour drew upon him ...
Page 390
... probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature ...
... probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature ...
Page 413
... probably by his temper more furious than Addison , for what they called liberty , and though a flatterer of the Whig ministry , could not sit quiet at a successful play ; but was eager to tell friends and enemies , that they had ...
... probably by his temper more furious than Addison , for what they called liberty , and though a flatterer of the Whig ministry , could not sit quiet at a successful play ; but was eager to tell friends and enemies , that they had ...
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