Excerpt from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D, Vol. 2 of 2: With an Essay on His Life and Genius This a tsasion from a secreta of the present time weal be considered as mere y ludicrous, or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship; but the manners of that time were so tinged With superstition, that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian Leta, 'l and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle. Some years afterwards, business, says Sprat, assed of course into other bands; and Cowley, ing no longer useful at Paris, was in 1656, sent back into England, that under pre tence of privacy and retirement, he might take occasion of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.