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Smith took his Master's degree on the 8th of July 1696 : he therefore was 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 ...
Smith took his Master's degree on the 8th of July 1696 : he therefore was 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 ...
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When he was nineteen , he was by the death of his father left more to his own direction , and probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was ...
When he was nineteen , he was by the death of his father left more to his own direction , and probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was ...
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Dennis , though equally zealous , and 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 ...
Dennis , though equally zealous , and 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 ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of Oxford world's classics Issues 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1952 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2009 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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