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... fchool , and tranfplanted thence to St. John's College , but in what ftation he lived there , we don't find . Dr. William Laud , afterwards archbishop of Canterbury , prefiding over that house , conceived a great affection for our ...
... fchool , and tranfplanted thence to St. John's College , but in what ftation he lived there , we don't find . Dr. William Laud , afterwards archbishop of Canterbury , prefiding over that house , conceived a great affection for our ...
Page 27
... fchool in the town of St. Alban's ; which employment he finding an intolerable drudgery , and being of a fickle unsteady temper , he relinquished it , came up to London , and took lodgings in Gray's Inn , where he commenced a writer for ...
... fchool in the town of St. Alban's ; which employment he finding an intolerable drudgery , and being of a fickle unsteady temper , he relinquished it , came up to London , and took lodgings in Gray's Inn , where he commenced a writer for ...
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... fchool ; his early in- clination to poetry was occafioned by reading acciden tally Spencer's Fairy Queen , which , as he himself gives an account , ufed four , he knew not by whare in his mother's par- accident , for the read no books ...
... fchool ; his early in- clination to poetry was occafioned by reading acciden tally Spencer's Fairy Queen , which , as he himself gives an account , ufed four , he knew not by whare in his mother's par- accident , for the read no books ...
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... fchool in the parish of All Saints in Oxford . In the year 1624 , the fame in which his father was Mayor of the city , he was entered a member of the univerfity of Oxford , in Lincoln's College , under the tuition of Mr. Daniel Hough ...
... fchool in the parish of All Saints in Oxford . In the year 1624 , the fame in which his father was Mayor of the city , he was entered a member of the univerfity of Oxford , in Lincoln's College , under the tuition of Mr. Daniel Hough ...
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... College fchool at Westminster , from which laft he was elected a student in Chrift Church 1608 , being then un- der the tuition of a noted tutor . Afterwards he took the degrees in arts , and entered into holy orders , and foon became a ...
... College fchool at Westminster , from which laft he was elected a student in Chrift Church 1608 , being then un- der the tuition of a noted tutor . Afterwards he took the degrees in arts , and entered into holy orders , and foon became a ...
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