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BY ADDITIONS TO EVERY ARTICLE FROM SUBSEQUENT
BIOGRAPHERS AND CRITICS.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

EDWARD PHILLIPS, son of Edward
Phillips, who came from Shrewsbury,
and rofe to be fecondary in the Crown-
office, by Anne, fifter of John Milton, the
poet, was born in the Strand, near Charing
Cross, in Auguft 1630, and received his
earlicft education under his uncle. Milton,
after his return from Italy,
" hired," fays
Johnson, "a lodging at the house of one
"Ruffell, a taylor, in St. Bride's church-

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yard, and undertook the education of

John and Edward Phillips, his fifter's "fons. Finding his rooms too little, he "took a house and garden in Alderfgate"ftreet, which was not then so much out "of the world as it is now: and chofe his dwelling at the upper end of a paffage, "that he might avoid rhe noise of the "ftreet. Here he received more boys to "be boarded and inftructed."

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lating the plan of education purfued here, he adds, with his usual acrimony: "From "this wonder-working academy, I do not "know that there ever proceeded any man 66 very eminent for knowledge: its only genuine product, I believe, is a finall

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Hiftory of Poetry, written in Latin, by " his nephew Phillips, of which, perhaps, "none of my readers has ever heard."

In 1648, Phillips became a ftudent of Magdalen Hall, in Oxford, where he continued till 1651; and the title of the work above-mentioned, as given by Anthony Wood, is in the following words.

"Tractatulus de carmine Dramatico Poetarum, præfertim in choris Tragicis, et veteris Comœdiæ.

Compendiofa enumeratio Poetarum (faltem quorum fama maxime enituit) qui a tempore Dantis Aligerii ufque ad hanc ætatem claruerunt: nempe Italorum, Germanorum, Anglorum, &c."

These two things were added to the feventeenth edition of Joh. Buchlerus's book, entitled, "Sacrarum profanarumque phrafium Poeticarum Thefaurus," &c. Lond. 1669, 8vo.

Johnson

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