The Colleges of Oxford: Their History and Traditions. XXI Chapters Contributed by Members of the CollegesAndrew Clark Methuen & Company, 1891 - 480 σελίδες |
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The Colleges of Oxford: Their History and Traditions : XXI Chapters ... Andrew Clark Πλήρης προβολή - 1892 |
The Colleges of Oxford: Their History and Traditions : XXI Chapters ... Andrew Clark Πλήρης προβολή - 1892 |
The Colleges of Oxford: Their History and Traditions. XXI Chapters ... Andrew Clark Πλήρης προβολή - 1891 |
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Σελίδα 287 - And by this marriage the good man was drawn from the tranquillity of his College ; from that garden of piety, of pleasure, of peace, and a sweet conversation, into the thorny wilderness of a busy world ; into those corroding cares that attend a married Priest, and a country Parsonage...
Σελίδα 414 - You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Σελίδα 272 - shall we build houses and provide livelihoods for a company of bussing 2 monks, whose end and fall we ourselves may live to see; no, no, it is more meet a great deal that we should have care to provide for the increase of learning, and for such as who by their learning shall do good in the church and commonwealth.
Σελίδα 415 - It was the practice in his time, for a servitor, by order of the Master, to go round to the rooms of the young men, and knocking at the door, to enquire if they were within, and, if no answer was returned, to report them absent. Johnson could not endure this intrusion, and would frequently be silent, when the utterance of a word would have insured him from censure...
Σελίδα 414 - I have heard from some of his contemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate, with a circle of young students round him, whom he was entertaining with wit, and keeping from their studies, if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline, which in his maturer years he so much extolled.
Σελίδα 260 - College, the MS. of his Palestine. Scott observed that in the verses on Solomon's Temple one striking circumstance had escaped him, namely, that no tools were used in its erection. Reginald retired for a few minutes to the corner of the room, and returned with the beautiful lines,— No...
Σελίδα 342 - Trinity, which was so dear to me, and which held on its foundation so many who have been kind to me both when I was a boy, and all through my Oxford life.
Σελίδα 414 - I was miserably poor,- and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my . wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
Σελίδα 416 - Pembroke, had contrived a very pretty piece of gallantry. We spent the day and evening at his house. After dinner, Johnson begged to conduct me to see the College, he would let no one show it me but himself, — 'This was my room; this Shenstone's.' Then, after pointing out all the rooms of the poets who had been of his College, ' In short," said he, ' we were a nest of singing-birds.
Σελίδα 406 - He told me too, that when he made his first declamation, he wrote over but one copy, and that coarsely ; and having given it into the hand of the tutor who stood to receive it as he passed, was obliged to begin by chance and continue on how he could, for he had got but little of it by heart; so, fairly trusting to his present powers for immediate supply, he finished by adding astonishment to the applause of all who knew how little was owing to study. A prodigious risk, however, said some one : "...