Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley

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Samuel Johnson. Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley

Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

WALLER

MILTON

Paradise Lost

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

ACT V

Adam Unparadised

COWLEY

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Samuel Johnson

Published by Good Press, 2019

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He died October 21, 1687, and was buried at Beaconsfield, with a monument erected by his son’s executors, for which Rymer wrote the inscription, and which I hope is now rescued from dilapidation.

He left several children by his second wife, of whom his daughter was married to Dr. Birch. Benjamin, the eldest son, was disinherited, and sent to New Jersey as wanting common understanding. Edmund, the second son, inherited the estate, and represented Agmondesham in parliament, but at last turned quaker. William, the third son, was a merchant in London. Stephen, the fourth, was an eminent doctor of laws, and one of the commissioners for the union. There is said to have been a fifth, of whom no account has descended.

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