14 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



many others did upon that occasion, removed 

 to the neighbouring villages ; first, to Sawston, 

 near Cambridge, w^here he boarded, together 

 with Mr. Covell, of his own college, and others, 

 who removed their pupils ; and afterwards at 

 Dullingham, near Newmarket. 



He never repented the pains he had taken 

 with the Greek poets, and indeed his head was 

 better turned for those elegant and polite stu- 

 dies, than one would easily imagine, who con- 

 siders him so early a disciple of the chemist 

 and the botanist, and himself afterwards so emi- 

 nent a casuist and antiquary ; and yet it is cer- 

 tain he took great delight, not only in poetry as 

 long as he lived, but while he was a youth in 

 plays and romances too, and whatever was cal- 

 culated to smite the fancy and move the pas- 

 sions. He had a happy talent of doing this 

 himself, whenever he proposed to stir the affec- 

 tions, (which he thought of great use in preach- 

 ing) ; and it may be observed in some of his 

 sermons, how much and how successfully he 

 hath, upon occasion, laboured this point. 



There is but one thing more to be taken no- 

 tice of in this preliminary account of his youth 

 and education, which, though of little moment 

 in itself, yet as it proved the means of his first 

 being taken notice of, and favoured by the man 



who gave him his first lift into the world, should 



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