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... London , retired to a village near Huntingdon , where he had inherited a small estate which brought him an income of eighty pounds a year . Samuel was educated at St. Paul's School in London and at Magdalene College , Cambridge ; and ...
... London , retired to a village near Huntingdon , where he had inherited a small estate which brought him an income of eighty pounds a year . Samuel was educated at St. Paul's School in London and at Magdalene College , Cambridge ; and ...
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... London to lead the literary life as it could then be lived . His first employer in London was Edward Cave , the proprietor of the then young but well - established Gentleman's Magazine . His principal task was to report by hearsay , or ...
... London to lead the literary life as it could then be lived . His first employer in London was Edward Cave , the proprietor of the then young but well - established Gentleman's Magazine . His principal task was to report by hearsay , or ...
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... London , but of London considered as a part of the country . Hence it was that a few years later , in giving one of the greatest of sonnets to our literature , he paid to London the noblest of tributes , and one in which his own spirit ...
... London , but of London considered as a part of the country . Hence it was that a few years later , in giving one of the greatest of sonnets to our literature , he paid to London the noblest of tributes , and one in which his own spirit ...
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