Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... College and Rector of Upham ; who was the fon of Jo . Young of Woodhay in Berkshire , ftiled by Wood gentleman . In Septem- ber 1682 the Poet's father was collated to the prebend of Gillingham Minor , in the church of Sarum , by bishop ...
... College and Rector of Upham ; who was the fon of Jo . Young of Woodhay in Berkshire , ftiled by Wood gentleman . In Septem- ber 1682 the Poet's father was collated to the prebend of Gillingham Minor , in the church of Sarum , by bishop ...
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... College , where he had himself been educated . At this school Edward Young remained till the election after his eighteenth birth - day , the period at which thofe upon the foundation are fuperannuated . Whether he did not betray his ...
... College , where he had himself been educated . At this school Edward Young remained till the election after his eighteenth birth - day , the period at which thofe upon the foundation are fuperannuated . Whether he did not betray his ...
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... College does not number among its Fellows him who wrote the Night Thoughts . On the 13th of October , 1703 , he was entered an Independent Member of New College , that he might live at lit- tle expence in the Warden's lodgings , who was ...
... College does not number among its Fellows him who wrote the Night Thoughts . On the 13th of October , 1703 , he was entered an Independent Member of New College , that he might live at lit- tle expence in the Warden's lodgings , who was ...
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Samuel Johnson. then removed to Corpus . The Prefident of this College , from regard alfo for his father , invited him thither , in order to leffen his academical expences . In 1708 he was nominated to a law fellowship at All - fouls by ...
Samuel Johnson. then removed to Corpus . The Prefident of this College , from regard alfo for his father , invited him thither , in order to leffen his academical expences . In 1708 he was nominated to a law fellowship at All - fouls by ...
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... college was proud of him no less as a fcholar than as a poet ; for , in 1716 , when the foundation of the Codrington Library was laid , two years after he had taken his Batchelor's degree , he was ap- pointed to fpeak the Latin oration ...
... college was proud of him no less as a fcholar than as a poet ; for , in 1716 , when the foundation of the Codrington Library was laid , two years after he had taken his Batchelor's degree , he was ap- pointed to fpeak the Latin oration ...
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