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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, by Samuel Johnson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Author: Samuel Johnson Release Date: January 8, 2008 [EBook #24218] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIVES OF THE POETS, VOL II *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. IN NINE VOLUMES. VOLUME THE EIGHTH. [Illustration] OXFORD, PUBLISHED BY TALBOYS AND WHEELER; AND W. PICKERING, LONDON. MDCCCXXV. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS. Prior Congreve Blackmore Fenton Gay Granville Yalden Tickell Hammond Somervile Savage Swift Broome Pope Pitt Thomson Watts A. Philips West Collins Dyer Shenstone Young Mallet Akenside Gray Lyttelton [Transcriber's Note: "CONTENTS OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME" list of poets was not present in the original text.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRIOR. Matthew Prior is one of those that have burst out from an obscure original to great eminence. He was born July 21, 1664, according to some, at Winburn, in Dorsetshire, of I know not what parents; others say, that he was the son of a joiner of London: he was, perhaps, willing enough to leave his birth unsettled[1], in hope, like Don Quixote, that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance. He is supposed to have fallen, by his father's death, into the hands of his uncle, a vintner[2], near Charing-cross, who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby, at Westminster; but, not intending to give him any education beyond that of the school, took him, when he was well advanced in literature, to his own house, where the earl of Dorset, celebrated for patronage of genius, found him by chance, as Burnet relates, reading Horace, and was so well pleased with his proficiency, that he unde
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