The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford ; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily. Educational Review - Page 19edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - England - 1870 - 382 pages
...to-day, we could see parties of girls, making cheerful contrast with the sombre walls and solemn shade. The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford...than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily. At dinner, to-day, the golden vases were all ranged on the table, the largest and central one containing... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - England - 1870 - 382 pages
...parties of girls, making cheerful contrast with the sombre walls and solemn shade. The world, surely, bas not another place like Oxford ; it is a despair to...than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily. At dinner, to-day, the golden vases were all ranged on the table, the largest and central one containing... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 298 pages
...to-day, we could see parties of girls, making cheerful contrast with the sombre walls and solemn shade. The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford...than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily. At dinner, to-day, the golden vases were all ranged on the table, the largest and central one containing... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 640 pages
...to-day, we could see parties of girls, making cheerful contrast with the sombre walls and solemn shade. The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford...than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily. At dinner, to-day, the golden vases were all ranged on the table, the largest and central one containing... | |
| Lucy Yeend Culler - Europe - 1883 - 250 pages
...subscription in the year of our Lord, MDCCCXLI." Upon leaving Oxford, we could truly say with Hawthorne, "It is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave...than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily." A ride of two and a half hours on the train brought us to Cheltenham, my birthplace. It has a population... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Great Britain - 1890 - 704 pages
...serious (in 1354) resulted in the death of fifty students, are now practically things of the past. 'The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford;...than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily' (Nat. Hawthorne). — Сотр. Maxwell byte's excellent 'History of the University of Oxford1 (1887),... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Great Britain - 1890 - 728 pages
...serious (in 1364) resulted in the death of fifty students, are now practically things of the past. 'The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford;...lifetime and more than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily1 (Nat. Hawthorne). — Comp. Maxwell Lyte's excellent 'History of the University of... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - England - 1891 - 642 pages
...to-day, we could see parties of girls, making cheerful contrast with the sombre walls and solemn shade. The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford...than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily. At dinner, to-day, the golden vases were all ranged on the table, the largest and central one containing... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1891 - 644 pages
...to-day, we could see parties of girls, making cheerful contrast with the sombre walls and solemn shade. The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford...than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily. At dinner, to-day, the golden vases were all ranged on the table, the largest and central one containing... | |
| William Henry Bishop - Europe, Southern - 1893 - 388 pages
...time without stop, going on to Oxford, sixty-three miles away. We know what Haw^ thorne has said of Oxford: "It is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it." So it seems almost like wickedness to approach it from the practical side; but should I once begin... | |
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