The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson, 6. köideJohn Nichols, 1790 |
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... Cambridge , and was admitted into the College of Phyficians ; he wrote little poe- try , but published , from time to time , medical eflays and obfervations ; he became phyfician to St. Thomas's Hofpital ; he read the Gulfto- nian ...
... Cambridge , and was admitted into the College of Phyficians ; he wrote little poe- try , but published , from time to time , medical eflays and obfervations ; he became phyfician to St. Thomas's Hofpital ; he read the Gulfto- nian ...
Page 109
... Cambridge . The tranfition from the fchool to the college is , to most young fcholars , the time from which they date their years of manhood , liber- ty , and happiness ; but Gray feems to have been very little delighted with ...
... Cambridge . The tranfition from the fchool to the college is , to most young fcholars , the time from which they date their years of manhood , liber- ty , and happiness ; but Gray feems to have been very little delighted with ...
Page 110
... Cambridge about five years , Mr. Horace Walpole , whose friendship he had gained at Eton , invited him to travel with him as his companion They wandered through France into Italy ; and Gray's Letters contain a very pleafing account of ...
... Cambridge about five years , Mr. Horace Walpole , whose friendship he had gained at Eton , invited him to travel with him as his companion They wandered through France into Italy ; and Gray's Letters contain a very pleafing account of ...
Page 111
... Cambridge , where he foon after became Ba- chelor of Civil Law ; and where , without lik- ing the place or its inhabitants , or profeffing to like them , he paffed , except a short refidence at London , the reft of his life . About this ...
... Cambridge , where he foon after became Ba- chelor of Civil Law ; and where , without lik- ing the place or its inhabitants , or profeffing to like them , he paffed , except a short refidence at London , the reft of his life . About this ...
Page 115
... Cambridge to a lodging near the Mufeum , where he refided near three years , reading and tranfcribing ; and , fo far as can be difcovered , ' very little affected by two odes on " Oblivion " and " Obfcurity , " in which his lyrick per ...
... Cambridge to a lodging near the Mufeum , where he refided near three years , reading and tranfcribing ; and , fo far as can be difcovered , ' very little affected by two odes on " Oblivion " and " Obfcurity , " in which his lyrick per ...
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