| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 páginas
...prologue it Oxford, he has these lines : yMs.. ; ' •• /. •; - ". -i *'.. • • .'•;•••« Oxford to him a dearer name shall be , Than his own mother-university; Thebes did his rude, unknowing youth engage :' He chooses Athens in his riper age. • '! It was not till the death... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 páginas
...mentions his education in the college with gratitude ; but, in a prologue at Oxford, he has these lines ; Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university ; Thebes did his rude, unknowing youth engage : He chooses Athens in his riper age. It was not till the death of Cromwell,... | |
| John Dryden - 1821 - 570 páginas
...fellow of the university, and certainly n' retained for it much of that veneration usually _Ah2f' Jf paid by an English scholar to his Alma Mater. He often...Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother university : Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age."*... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 498 páginas
...provincial band. If his ambition may those hopes pursue, Who, with religion, loves your arts and you, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university. Thebes f did his green, unknowing, youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age. * Alluding to the Roman... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 páginas
...'•': ' ii • .', •.- . • ..•• : • •/ ; -• i '.'•-' 'i :•"• '_'•:'! ; V. n"1 A! Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university : i * . ." .- f- ' i Thebes did his rude, unknowing youth engage : He chooses Athens in his riper age.... | |
| 1822 - 314 páginas
...provincial band. If his ambition may those hopes pursue, Who, with religion, loves your arts and you; Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age. TO THE DISAPPOINTMENT: OR, THE MOTHER IN FASHION. BY SOUTHERN. 1684. SPOKEN BY MR. BETTERTON. How comes... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 páginas
...mentions his education in the College with gratitude ; but, in a prologue at Oxford, he has these lines : Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university : Thebes did his rude, unknowing youth engage ; lie chooses Athens in his riper age. It was not till the death of Cromwell,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 556 páginas
...to the University of Oxford. Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother university ; Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age. Both poets had received some censure from their Alma Mater. t Vol. XV. p. 252. $ These verses were... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 páginas
...mentions his education in the college with gratitude ; but, in a prologue at Oxford, he has these lines : Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university : Thebes did his rude, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age. It was not till the death of Cromwell,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 páginas
...' He took, however, the degree of Bachelor, in January 1653-4, but neither became Master of Arts,2 nor a fellow of the university, and certainly never...the sister university in point of taste and learning : 'i Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother university : Thebes did his green unknowing... | |
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