Oxford, Brief Historical and Descriptive NotesSeeley and Company, 1890 - 282 oldal |
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94. oldal
... never been very favourable to learning . Thus , in 1550 , “ the ancient libraries were by their appointment rifled . Many manuscripts , guilty of no other superstition than red letters in the front or titles , were condemned to the fire ...
... never been very favourable to learning . Thus , in 1550 , “ the ancient libraries were by their appointment rifled . Many manuscripts , guilty of no other superstition than red letters in the front or titles , were condemned to the fire ...
96. oldal
... Never , surely , was a poet so sharply taught the merit of brevity . How Edward Anne must have regretted that he had not knocked off an epigram , a biting couplet , or a smart quatrain with the sting of the wit in the tail ! Oxford ...
... Never , surely , was a poet so sharply taught the merit of brevity . How Edward Anne must have regretted that he had not knocked off an epigram , a biting couplet , or a smart quatrain with the sting of the wit in the tail ! Oxford ...
101. oldal
... never dance after that pipe . " We find Oxford so illiterate , that she could not even provide an University preacher ! A country gentleman , Richard Taverner of Woodeaton , would stroll into St. Mary's , with his sword and damask gown ...
... never dance after that pipe . " We find Oxford so illiterate , that she could not even provide an University preacher ! A country gentleman , Richard Taverner of Woodeaton , would stroll into St. Mary's , with his sword and damask gown ...
120. oldal
... of the sister University have never been greatly admired at Oxford , where the brisk air , men flatter themselves , breeds nimbler humours . Here is part of the Cantab's epigram : - " To Oxenford the King has gone , With all 120 Oxford .
... of the sister University have never been greatly admired at Oxford , where the brisk air , men flatter themselves , breeds nimbler humours . Here is part of the Cantab's epigram : - " To Oxenford the King has gone , With all 120 Oxford .
128. oldal
... never a Parliament but had its committee to discuss religion , and to stray into the devious places of divinity . The plague pursued Charles to Oxford . In those days , and long afterwards , it was a common complaint that the citizens ...
... never a Parliament but had its committee to discuss religion , and to stray into the devious places of divinity . The plague pursued Charles to Oxford . In those days , and long afterwards , it was a common complaint that the citizens ...
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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.