The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 32
... marriage . This innovation was opposed , as might be ex- pected , by the clergy , who , then holding their fa- mous assembly at Westminster , procured that the author should be called before the lords ; but " 32 MILTON.
... marriage . This innovation was opposed , as might be ex- pected , by the clergy , who , then holding their fa- mous assembly at Westminster , procured that the author should be called before the lords ; but " 32 MILTON.
Pagina 33
Samuel Johnson. author should be called before the lords ; but " that house , " says Wood , " whether approving the doc- trine , or not favouring his accusers , did soon dis- miss him . " There seems not to have been much written against ...
Samuel Johnson. author should be called before the lords ; but " that house , " says Wood , " whether approving the doc- trine , or not favouring his accusers , did soon dis- miss him . " There seems not to have been much written against ...
Pagina 135
... lord Wilmot , so often men- tioned in Clarendon's History , was born April 10 , 1647 , at Ditchley , in Oxfordshire . After a gram- matical education at the school of Burford , he en- tered a nobleman into Wadham college in 1659 , only ...
... lord Wilmot , so often men- tioned in Clarendon's History , was born April 10 , 1647 , at Ditchley , in Oxfordshire . After a gram- matical education at the school of Burford , he en- tered a nobleman into Wadham college in 1659 , only ...
Pagina 137
... illness , that life went out without a struggle . Lord Rochester was eminent for the vigour of his colloquial wit , and remarkable for many wild pranks VOL . 8 137 and sallies of extravagance . The glare of his general ROCHESTER.
... illness , that life went out without a struggle . Lord Rochester was eminent for the vigour of his colloquial wit , and remarkable for many wild pranks VOL . 8 137 and sallies of extravagance . The glare of his general ROCHESTER.
Pagina 138
... lord Mulgrave , Satire against Man , the Verses upon Nothing , and , perhaps , some others , are , I believe , genuine ; and , perhaps , most of those which the late collection exhibits " . As he cannot be supposed to have found leisure ...
... lord Mulgrave , Satire against Man , the Verses upon Nothing , and , perhaps , some others , are , I believe , genuine ; and , perhaps , most of those which the late collection exhibits " . As he cannot be supposed to have found leisure ...
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