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... School , and Trinity College , Cambridge ; and on the death of his father , in 1654 , succeeded to a small estate , which he regarded as sufficient to justify him in adopting literature as his profession , in preference to any other ...
... School , and Trinity College , Cambridge ; and on the death of his father , in 1654 , succeeded to a small estate , which he regarded as sufficient to justify him in adopting literature as his profession , in preference to any other ...
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... school , and with the best company of young noblemen . And Horace , by his gratitude to his memory , gives a certain testimony that his education was ingenious . After this , he formed himself abroad , by the conversation of great men ...
... school , and with the best company of young noblemen . And Horace , by his gratitude to his memory , gives a certain testimony that his education was ingenious . After this , he formed himself abroad , by the conversation of great men ...
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... school whose poetry was a collec- tion of forced conceits - many of his poems were satires , for which class of composition he is said to have been the first to adopt the rhyming couplet , which , however , in his hands , was sadly ...
... school whose poetry was a collec- tion of forced conceits - many of his poems were satires , for which class of composition he is said to have been the first to adopt the rhyming couplet , which , however , in his hands , was sadly ...
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... School , and a satiric writer , chiefly of parodies . He is introduced by Lucian as an interlocutor in one of his wittiest dialogues . It was from him , i.e. Lucian , that a very celebrated French work , the ' Satire Menip- pée ...
... School , and a satiric writer , chiefly of parodies . He is introduced by Lucian as an interlocutor in one of his wittiest dialogues . It was from him , i.e. Lucian , that a very celebrated French work , the ' Satire Menip- pée ...
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... School , to whom Persius addressed his fifth Satire . ' P. 65. Demosthenes and Eschines . Eschines , even after his defeat by Demosthenes in the great contest De Coronâ , had the candour always to acknowledge the superiority of his ...
... School , to whom Persius addressed his fifth Satire . ' P. 65. Demosthenes and Eschines . Eschines , even after his defeat by Demosthenes in the great contest De Coronâ , had the candour always to acknowledge the superiority of his ...
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