Walks in Oxford. 2 vols. [in 1].1817 |
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... completing the superior de- gree in the several faculties , which always takes place on the Monday after the 7th of July , is generally at- tended with " many solemnities , and festivities . " z Sons of British and Irish Peers , when ...
... completing the superior de- gree in the several faculties , which always takes place on the Monday after the 7th of July , is generally at- tended with " many solemnities , and festivities . " z Sons of British and Irish Peers , when ...
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... completed which , the foundation - stone was solemnly laid on the 10th of February , 1437. In seven years the buildings were completed , at the expence , in- cluding books and other College requisites , of See our account of St. John's ...
... completed which , the foundation - stone was solemnly laid on the 10th of February , 1437. In seven years the buildings were completed , at the expence , in- cluding books and other College requisites , of See our account of St. John's ...
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... completed , will deserve to rank among the most beautiful modern specimens of the style in question . On entering the ante - chapel of All Souls , the mind is forcibly impelled to a consideration of the shortness of human existence ...
... completed , will deserve to rank among the most beautiful modern specimens of the style in question . On entering the ante - chapel of All Souls , the mind is forcibly impelled to a consideration of the shortness of human existence ...
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... completed , will form the first example in Oxford of a departure from the old quadran- gular arrangement of collegiate edifices . At pre- sent only the eastern and northern sides are finished ; the southern being still formed by F part ...
... completed , will form the first example in Oxford of a departure from the old quadran- gular arrangement of collegiate edifices . At pre- sent only the eastern and northern sides are finished ; the southern being still formed by F part ...
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... completing the benevolent purpose devolved upon his relict , the Lady Devorgille , daughter of Alan , Lord of Galloway , in Scotland . This noble lady , whose pious desire of fulfilling the wishes of her deceased husband fortunately met ...
... completing the benevolent purpose devolved upon his relict , the Lady Devorgille , daughter of Alan , Lord of Galloway , in Scotland . This noble lady , whose pious desire of fulfilling the wishes of her deceased husband fortunately met ...
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Страница 220 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Страница 251 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Страница 184 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious earth. "A city stands on Argos...
Страница 220 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Страница 229 - What! my lord, shall we build houses, and provide livelihoods for a company of 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 to the church and commonwealth.
Страница 251 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading: Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not, But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. And though he were unsatisfied in getting, Which was a sin, yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely...
Страница 190 - No more the matchless skill I call unkind, That strives to disenchant my cheated mind. For when again I view thy chaste design, The just proportion, and the genuine line; Those native portraitures of Attic art, That from the lucid surface seem to start; Those tints, that steal no glories from the day, Nor ask the sun to lend his streaming ray...
Страница 184 - Like Leaves on Trees the Race of Man is found, Now green in Youth, now with'ring on the Ground, Another Race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So Generations in their Course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Страница 335 - Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the PrintingHouse, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of the last month in Lent Term, and the end of the third week in Act Term.
Страница 218 - being accounted the best book of the kind, my " pen cannot enough describe how A. Wood's " tender affections and insatiable desire of know" ledge were ravished, and melted down, by the " reading of that book. What by music, and rare " books that he found in the public library, his " life at this time and after was a perfect elysium.