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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 1728?1731. Enters at Pembroke College, Oxford?Hb College Life?The Morbid Melancholy lurking in his Constitution gains Strength?Translates Pope's Messiah into Latin Verse?His Course of Reading at Oxford?Quits College. That a man in Mr. Micbaol Johnson's circumstances should think of sending his son to the expensive university of Oxford, at his own charge, seems very improbable. The subject was too delicate to question Johnson upon: but I have been assured by Dr. Taylor, that the scheme never would have taken place, had not a gentleman of Shropshire, one of his schoolfellows, spontaneously undertaken to support him at Oxford, in the character of his companion; though, in fact, he never received any assistance whatever from that gentleman.1 He, however, went to Oxford, and was entered a commoner of Pembroke College, on the 31st of October, 1728, being then in his nineteenth year. The Reverend Dr. Adams, who afterwards presided over Pembroke College with universal esteem, told me he was present, and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford. On that evening, his father, who had anxiously 1 A neighbouring gentleman, Mr. Andrew Corbett, having a son, who had been educated in the same school with Johnson, whom he was about to send to Pembroke College, in Oxford, a proposal was made and accepted, that Johnson should attend bis son thither, in quality of assistant in his studies.?Hawkins. Andrew Corbett appears, from the books of Pembroke College, to have been admitted February 24,1727, and his name was removed from the books February 21, 1732; so that, as ' Johnson entered in October, 1728, and does not appear to have returned after Christmas, 1729, . Corbett was of the university twenty months before and twelve or...
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