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... college , and that college the ornament of the most learned and polite university ; and it was his happiness to have several contemporaries and fellow - students who exercised and excited this virtue in themselves and others , thereby ...
... college , and that college the ornament of the most learned and polite university ; and it was his happiness to have several contemporaries and fellow - students who exercised and excited this virtue in themselves and others , thereby ...
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... College , an exact critic in the Greek tongue , from whom it came to my hands . The French version of Monsieur Boileau , though truly valuable , was far short of it . He proposed a large addition to this work of notes and observations ...
... College , an exact critic in the Greek tongue , from whom it came to my hands . The French version of Monsieur Boileau , though truly valuable , was far short of it . He proposed a large addition to this work of notes and observations ...
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... College in Oxford , where , in 1689 , the accidental perusal of some Latin verses gained him the patronage of Dr. Lancaster , afterwards provost of Queen's College ; by whose recommendation he was elected into Magdalen College as a Demy ...
... College in Oxford , where , in 1689 , the accidental perusal of some Latin verses gained him the patronage of Dr. Lancaster , afterwards provost of Queen's College ; by whose recommendation he was elected into Magdalen College as a Demy ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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