Bear me, oh! bear me to sequester'd scenes,
The bowry mazes, and surrounding greens;
To Txames's banks, which fragrant breezes hil,
Or where ye Muses sport on Cooper's hill.
(On Cooper's Hill eternal wreaths shail grow

While lasts the mountain, or whi e Thames shall flow.).
Here his first lays majestic DENHAM sung;

There the last numbers flow'd from Cowley's tongue.

POPE.

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SAMUEL BAGSTER.

THE LIFE

OF

SIR JOHN DENHAM.

BY

SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L.D.

Or Sir John Denham very little is known but what is related of him by Wood, or by himself.

He was born at Dublin in 1615; the only son of Sir John Denham, of Little Horsely, in Essex, then chief baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, and of Eleanor, daughter of Sir Garret More, baron of Mellefont.

Two years afterwards, his father, being made one of the barons of the Exchequer in England, brought him away from his native country, and educated him in London.

In 1631 he was sent to Oxford, where he was considered as a dreaming young man, given more to dice and cards than study;' and therefore gave no prognostics of his future eminence; nor was suspected to conceal, under sluggishness