Walks in Oxford;: Comprising an Original, Historical, and Descriptive Account of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings of the University: with an Introductory Outline of the Academical History of Oxford. To which are Added, a Concise History and Description of the City, and Delineations in the Environs of Oxford, Volume 1 |
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... beautiful Conduit , " of which , in a subsequent part of our volume , a brief de- scription will be given . And hither , as the most central , and therefore most suitable point , we shall repair , previously to the commencement of our ...
... beautiful Conduit , " of which , in a subsequent part of our volume , a brief de- scription will be given . And hither , as the most central , and therefore most suitable point , we shall repair , previously to the commencement of our ...
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... beautiful College of All Souls ; the southern side is formed by St. Mary's , the pride of Oxford churches , and the western side is bounded by the venerable front of Brasen - nose College . In the centre of the Square the Radcli- vian ...
... beautiful College of All Souls ; the southern side is formed by St. Mary's , the pride of Oxford churches , and the western side is bounded by the venerable front of Brasen - nose College . In the centre of the Square the Radcli- vian ...
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... beautiful em- battled oriel window , flanked by vacant niches under coronal canopies . The summit of the tower , and the whole line of front , display also the usual finish of an embattled parapet . The interior face of this fine tower ...
... beautiful em- battled oriel window , flanked by vacant niches under coronal canopies . The summit of the tower , and the whole line of front , display also the usual finish of an embattled parapet . The interior face of this fine tower ...
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... beautiful cluster of pinnacled and canopied enrichment that orna- ments its base . It is here that Oxford ( in the words of her poet , who probably had this very prospect in his mind when he wrote the stanza ) may preeminently be seen ...
... beautiful cluster of pinnacled and canopied enrichment that orna- ments its base . It is here that Oxford ( in the words of her poet , who probably had this very prospect in his mind when he wrote the stanza ) may preeminently be seen ...
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... 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 . The sepul- chral memorials are very numerous , and ...
... 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 . The sepul- chral memorials are very numerous , and ...
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Page 163 - 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. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. 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...
Page 133 - 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.
Page 133 - 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...
Page 163 - 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.
Page 140 - 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...
Page 246 - Genera, which he had got half printed from Holland, to be written against him ; but he afterwards detained him a month, without leaving Linnaeus an hour to himself the whole day long , and at last took leave of him with tears in his eyes, after having given him the choice of living with him till his death, as the salary of the Professorship was sufficient for them both.
Page 85 - This is the emblem of a good tutor or fellow of a college, who is set to watch over the youth of the society, and by whose prudence they are to be led through the dangers of their first entrance into the world.
Page 337 - Near the Village of BLENHEIM, On the Banks of the Danube, BY JOHN DUKE of MARLBOROUGH, The Hero not only of his Nation, but of his Age...
Page 169 - J516, recites that the founder, to the praise and honour of God Almighty, the most holy body of Christ, and the blessed Virgin Mary, as also of the apostles Peter, Paul, and Andrew, and of St. Cuthbert and St.
Page 337 - Monument deiigned to perpetuate the Memory of the Signal Viftory Obtained over the French and Bavarians, Near the Village of Blenheim, On the Banks of the Danube, By JOHN Duke of...