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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine - Page 352
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An Account of the English Dramatick Poets: Or, Some Observations and Remarks ...

Gerard Langbaine - 1691 - 626 pages
...School",. "iriftead of 'running about on Holidays, and playing wid| ' his Fellows, he was wont to f teal from them, ' and walk into the Fields, either alo'ne with ' a Book ; or with folnt One CompKnJfoilj ff he 'could find any of the fame TerapeK '; • His firft Inclinations to Poetry,...
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A Bill to Enable John Dickins, of Leaton in the County of Stafford, Esq; to ...

Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 pages
...at fchool, inftead of running about on holy-days and playing with my fellows ; I was wont to Iteal from them, and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with fome one companion, if I could find any of the fame temper. I was then, too, fo much an enemy to all...
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Select Works, Volume 2

Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...boy at fchool, inftead of running about on holy-days and playing with my fellows; I was wont to fleal from them, and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with fome one companion, if I could find any of the fame temper. I was then, too, fo much an enemy to all...
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Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes, Volume 2

Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 298 pages
...boy at fchool, inftead of running about on holy-days and playing with my fellows; I was wont to Heal from them, and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with fome one companion, if I could find any of the fame temper. .1 was then, too, fo much an enemy to all...
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The Works of the English Poets: Cowley

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 514 pages
...boy at fchool, inftead of running about on holy-days and playing with my fellows, I was wont to fteal from them, and walk into the fields,, either alone with a book, or with fome or,: companion, if I could find any of the fame, temper. I was then, too, fo much an enemy to...
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The Works of the English Poets: Cowley

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 424 pages
...at fchool, inftead , of running about on holy-days and playing with my fellows, I was wont to fteal from them, and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, pr with fome one companion, if I could find any of the fame, temper. I was then, too, fo much an enemy...
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The Works of Abraham Cowley, Volume 3

Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 pages
...understanding. Even when I was a very young boy at school, instead of running about on holy-days and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them, and...same temper. I was then, too, so much an enemy to all constraint, that my masters could never prevail on me, by any persuasions or encouragements, to...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...understanding. Even when I was a very young boy at school, instead of running about on holidays, and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them, and...the fields, either alone with a book, or with some on* companion, if I could find any of the same temper. I was then, too, so much an enemy to constraint,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...understanding. Even •when I was si very young boy at school, instead of running about on holidays, and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them, and...the fields, either alone with a book, or with some ono companion, if I could find any of the same temper. 1 was then, too, so much an enemy to constraint,...
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The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 3

Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 pages
...understanding. Even when I was a very young boy at school, instead of running about on holy-days and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them, and...same temper. I was then, too, so much an enemy to all constraint, that my masters could never prevail on me, by any persuasions or encouragements, to...
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