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Page x
... published , when the continuance of my task was hindered by the serious illness , of which I have spoken . On my partial recovery , when I took up the pen that had lain idle for two long years , I resolved to recast much of what I had ...
... published , when the continuance of my task was hindered by the serious illness , of which I have spoken . On my partial recovery , when I took up the pen that had lain idle for two long years , I resolved to recast much of what I had ...
Page xi
... published for the first time . The second division consists of articles which I have so recast and so enlarged that , so far as form at least is concerned , they may fairly claim to be original . The third portion is coinposed of essays ...
... published for the first time . The second division consists of articles which I have so recast and so enlarged that , so far as form at least is concerned , they may fairly claim to be original . The third portion is coinposed of essays ...
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... published his poem of ' London ' and had become famous , when he found that the want of a degree stood in the way of his advancement in life , when without it he could neither , as he at one time wished , get the mastership of a grammar ...
... published his poem of ' London ' and had become famous , when he found that the want of a degree stood in the way of his advancement in life , when without it he could neither , as he at one time wished , get the mastership of a grammar ...
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... published . The side chapel beneath the old library was the college chapel . Six months before he came into residence the foundations of the present chapel were laid . During the whole of his stay at Oxford he had rising before his eyes ...
... published . The side chapel beneath the old library was the college chapel . Six months before he came into residence the foundations of the present chapel were laid . During the whole of his stay at Oxford he had rising before his eyes ...
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... Published in Notes and Queries , 2nd series , vol . x . p . 366. My attention was drawn to this diary by Mr. Wordsworth's Social Life at the English Universities . the horse , and particularly of that description in it OXFORD IN ...
... Published in Notes and Queries , 2nd series , vol . x . p . 366. My attention was drawn to this diary by Mr. Wordsworth's Social Life at the English Universities . the horse , and particularly of that description in it OXFORD IN ...
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Page 64 - The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
Page 8 - O'er Bodley's dome his future labours spread, And Bacon's mansion trembles o'er his head. Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Page 1 - 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.
Page 198 - Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Page 266 - He then burst into such a fit of laughter, that he appeared to be almost in a convulsion ; and, in order to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud, that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple-bar to Fleetditch.
Page 196 - Sir, it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both.
Page 171 - Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London...
Page 313 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 141 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I .knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Page 184 - The pamphlet proves what I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity. Of Mr. Boswell's truth I have not the least suspicion, because I am sure he could invent nothing of this kind.