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| | §18. Anthony Wood and "Athenae Oxonienses". XIII. Scholars and Antiquaries. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Nevertheless, Woods dissatisfaction with the Latin version was quite genuine, and, very soon afterwards, he began an English transcription of the whole work, continuing the general history to the year 1660. |
 | | Wood was not only a chronicler of the past, but a recorder, also, of the passing hour, and in his autobiography and diaries we meet him at close quarters. |
 | | So far as Wood himself is concerned, one is tempted to think it a pity that the autobiography has been preserved, for it leaves the impression that he was a disagreeable person and that, for all his great work, he was a little soul. |
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