Oxford, Brief Historical and Descriptive NotesSeeley and Company, 1890 - 282 oldal |
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ix. oldal
... ) the sunshine fleets along the plain , revealing towers , and floods , and trees , in a gleam of watery light , and leaving them once more in shadow . The melancholy mist creeps over the city , the damp soaks into the heart of.
... ) the sunshine fleets along the plain , revealing towers , and floods , and trees , in a gleam of watery light , and leaving them once more in shadow . The melancholy mist creeps over the city , the damp soaks into the heart of.
x. oldal
... leaves that cover the walls of Magdalen with an imperial vesture . Our memories of Oxford , if we have long made her a Castle of Indolence , vary no less than do the shifting aspects of her scenery . Days of spring and of mere pleasure ...
... leaves that cover the walls of Magdalen with an imperial vesture . Our memories of Oxford , if we have long made her a Castle of Indolence , vary no less than do the shifting aspects of her scenery . Days of spring and of mere pleasure ...
xi. oldal
... leave the enchantress betimes , and to carry away few but kind recollections . If there be any who think and speak ungently of their Alma Mater , it is because they have outstayed their natural " welcome while , " or because they have ...
... leave the enchantress betimes , and to carry away few but kind recollections . If there be any who think and speak ungently of their Alma Mater , it is because they have outstayed their natural " welcome while , " or because they have ...
19. oldal
... leave that Oxford before the Conquest , of which possibly not one stone , or one rafter , remains . We look back through eight hundred years on a city , rich enough , it seems , and powerful , and we see the narrow streets full of armed ...
... leave that Oxford before the Conquest , of which possibly not one stone , or one rafter , remains . We look back through eight hundred years on a city , rich enough , it seems , and powerful , and we see the narrow streets full of armed ...
29. oldal
... leave the remains of Robert's place of arms - as glad as Matilda may have been when " they let her down at night from the tower with ropes , and she stole out , and went on foot to Wal- lingford . " Robert seems at first to have made ...
... leave the remains of Robert's place of arms - as glad as Matilda may have been when " they let her down at night from the tower with ropes , and she stole out , and went on foot to Wal- lingford . " Robert seems at first to have made ...
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167. oldal - His Latin and Greek stood him in little stead ; he was to give an account only of the state of his soul ; . whether he was of the number of the elect ; what was the occasion of...
94. oldal - And there we found one Mr. Greenfield, a gentleman of Buckinghamshire, gathering up part of the same book leaves, as he said, therewith to make him sewers or blawnshers, to keep the deer within his wood, thereby to have the better cry with his hounds...
168. oldal - The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death ? The boy, who had been bred up by honest parents, was frighted out of his wits at the solemnity of the proceeding, and by the last dreadful interrogatory ; so that, upon making his escape out of this house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able to go through the terrors of it.
199. oldal - To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother.
50. oldal - The crowns of some chaplains, viz. all the skin so far as the tonsure went, these diabolical imps flayed off in scorn of their clergy.
167. oldal - ... till at length the head of the college came out to him, from an inner room, with half a dozen night-caps upon his head, and religious horror in his countenance. The young man trembled ; but his fears increased, when, instead of being asked what progress he had made in learning, he was examined how he abounded in grace.
208. oldal - ... coats, greasy sun-burnt heads of hair, clouted shoes, yarn stockings, flapping hats, with silver hat-bands, and long muslin neckcloths run with red at the bottom.
224. oldal - I proposed, as they had closed the casements, and as the shutters were on the outside, to fire a volley. It was thought a good trick, and accordingly I went into my bedroom and fired. Soon the president sent up a servant to inform me that Mr. Leeds had complained of a gun being fired from the room in which I entertained my company, but he could not tell by whom ; so that he insisted on knowing from me, and making me liable to the punishment.