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Page 5
Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , “ passed of course into other
hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back
into England , that “ under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take ...
Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , “ passed of course into other
hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back
into England , that “ under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take ...
Page 17
So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A globe , yea world , by that
impression grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world , by waters
sent from thee my heaven dissolved so . Johnson ' s Lives . I . a On reading the
following ...
So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A globe , yea world , by that
impression grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world , by waters
sent from thee my heaven dissolved so . Johnson ' s Lives . I . a On reading the
following ...
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In 1631 he was sent to Oxford , where he was considered " as a dreaming young
man , given more to dice and cards than study : " and therefore gave no
prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under
sluggishne ...
In 1631 he was sent to Oxford , where he was considered " as a dreaming young
man , given more to dice and cards than study : " and therefore gave no
prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under
sluggishne ...
Page 57
He was then sent to St . Paul ' s School , under the care of Mr . Gill ; and removed
, in the beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ ' s College , in Cambridge ,
where he entered a sizar , Feb . 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled
in ...
He was then sent to St . Paul ' s School , under the care of Mr . Gill ; and removed
, in the beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ ' s College , in Cambridge ,
where he entered a sizar , Feb . 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled
in ...
Page 62
He afterwards went to Venice ; and , having sent away a collection of music and
other books , travelled to Geneva , which he probably considered as the
metropolis of orthodoxy . Here he reposed as in a congenial element , and
became ...
He afterwards went to Venice ; and , having sent away a collection of music and
other books , travelled to Geneva , which he probably considered as the
metropolis of orthodoxy . Here he reposed as in a congenial element , and
became ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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