The Works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq., Vol. 1: Containing, the Ambitious Step-Mother, Tamerlane, the Fair Penitent, Ulysses (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq., Vol. 1: Containing, the Ambitious Step-Mother, Tamerlane, the Fair Penitent, Ulysses

His Father took all the Care poflible of j his Education, and when he was fit for it, fent him to Wqfiminfier School, under the famous Dr. Big/b. He made an extraordinary Pro grefs in all the Parts of Learning taught in that School, and about the Age of. Twelve Years was chofen one of the King's Scholars. He became in a little time Matter to a great Perfeftion of all the Claflical Authors, both Greek and Latin, and made a tolerable Pro ficiency in. The Hebrew but Poetry was his early Bent, and his darling Study. He com pos'd at that time feveral Copies of Verles upon difl'erent Subjects both in Greek and Latin and fome in Englb, which were mud! Admir'd, and the more that they colt him very little Pains, and feem'd to flow from his Imagination, almofl: as fall as his Pen.

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