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... published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention ...
... published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention ...
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... published " An Essay upon Gaming . " He seems to have divided his studies between law and poetry : for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Eneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwith- standing his ...
... published " An Essay upon Gaming . " He seems to have divided his studies between law and poetry : for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Eneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwith- standing his ...
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... published " Cooper's Hill . " This poem had such reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty ...
... published " Cooper's Hill . " This poem had such reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty ...
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... published a treatise of Reformation , in two books , against the established church ; being willing to help the puritans , who were , he says , " inferior to the prelates in learning . Hall , bishop of Norwich , had published an Humble ...
... published a treatise of Reformation , in two books , against the established church ; being willing to help the puritans , who were , he says , " inferior to the prelates in learning . Hall , bishop of Norwich , had published an Humble ...
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... published the same year two more pamphlets , upon the same question . To one of his antagonists , who affirms that he was " vomited out of the University , " he answers in general terms . " The fellows of the college wherein I spent ...
... published the same year two more pamphlets , upon the same question . To one of his antagonists , who affirms that he was " vomited out of the University , " he answers in general terms . " The fellows of the college wherein I spent ...
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