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... College * 16 opd S 1 and Rector of Upham ; who was the fon of Jo . Young of Woodhay in Berkshire , ftiled by Wood gentleman . In Septem- ber 1682 the Poet's father was collated to the prebend of Gillingham Minor , in the church of ...
... College * 16 opd S 1 and Rector of Upham ; who was the fon of Jo . Young of Woodhay in Berkshire , ftiled by Wood gentleman . In Septem- ber 1682 the Poet's father was collated to the prebend of Gillingham Minor , in the church of ...
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... College , where he had himself been educated . At this fchool Edward Young remained till the election after his eighteenth birth - day , the period at which thofe upon the foundation are fuperannuated . Whether he did not betray his ...
... College , where he had himself been educated . At this fchool Edward Young remained till the election after his eighteenth birth - day , the period at which thofe upon the foundation are fuperannuated . Whether he did not betray his ...
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... College does not number among its Fellows him who wrote the Night Thoughts . On the 13th of October , 1703 , he was entered an Independent Member of New College , that he might live at lit- tle expence in the Warden's lodgings , who was ...
... College does not number among its Fellows him who wrote the Night Thoughts . On the 13th of October , 1703 , he was entered an Independent Member of New College , that he might live at lit- tle expence in the Warden's lodgings , who was ...
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SAMUEL johnson. then removed to Corpus . The Prefident 节 of this College , from regard alfo for his father , invited him thither , in order to leffen his academical expences . In 17081 he was nominated to a law fellowship at All - fouls ...
SAMUEL johnson. then removed to Corpus . The Prefident 节 of this College , from regard alfo for his father , invited him thither , in order to leffen his academical expences . In 17081 he was nominated to a law fellowship at All - fouls ...
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... college was proud of him no lefs as a fcholar than as a poet ; for , in 1716 , when the foundation of the Codrington Library was laid , two years after he had taken his Batchelor's degree , he was ap- pointed to speak the Latin oration ...
... college was proud of him no lefs as a fcholar than as a poet ; for , in 1716 , when the foundation of the Codrington Library was laid , two years after he had taken his Batchelor's degree , he was ap- pointed to speak the Latin oration ...
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Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets Samuel Johnson Visualização integral - 1781 |
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Página 18 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
Página 17 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 6 - Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Página 60 - O how divine ! to tread the milky way, To the bright palace of the lord of day ; His court admire, or for his favour sue, Or leagues of friendship with his saints renew...
Página 9 - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.
Página 23 - The Prospect of Eton College suggests nothing to Gray, which every beholder does not equally think and feel.
Página 43 - Short was his joy. He little knew The power of Magic was no fable ; Out of the window, whisk, they flew, But left a spell upon the table.
Página 13 - Westmoreland and Cumberland. He that reads his epistolary narration wishes, that to travel, and to tell his travels, had been more of his employment ; but it is by studying at home that we must obtain the ability of travelling with intelligence and improvement.
Página 17 - twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Página 6 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.