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He [John Milton] was so fair that they called him the Lady of Christ's College.

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He pronounced the letter R (littera canina) very hard—a certain sign of a satirical wit.

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He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.

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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.

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He was a handsome, well-shaped man: very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit.

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His complexion exceeding faire – he was so faire that they called him the Lady of Christ's College.

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There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

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His harmonical and ingenious soul did lodge in a beautiful and well proportioned body. He was a spare man.

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He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

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Oval face. His eye a dark grey. He had auburn hair. His complexion exceeding fair—he was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.

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The parliament intended to have hanged him, and he expected no less, but resolved to be hanged with the Bible under one arm and Magna Carta under the other.

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If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

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I have heard him say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.
Of William Harvey

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She was when a child much against the Bishops, and prayed to God to take them to him, but afterwards was reconciled to them. Prayed aloud, as the hypocritical fashion then was, and was overheard.

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