Note 10 — THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
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Spencer, whose college disappointments forced him from the University. Milton is reported to have received corporal punishment there. Dryden has left a testimony, in a prologue spoken at Oxford, much against his own University. The incivility, not to give it a harsher appellation, which Gray met with, is well known. That Alma Mater has not remitted her wonted illiberality, is to be fairly presumed from a passage in her late most poetical son, Mr. Mason:
Science there Sat musing; and to those that loved the lore Pointed, with mystic wand, to truths involved In geometric symbols, scorning those Perchance too much, who woo’d the thriftless Muse. English Garden.