 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 páginas
...provincial band. If his ambition may tlio.se hopes pursue, Who with religion loves your arts and you, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be, Than his own...mother-university. Thebes did his green, unknowing, youth enHe chooses Athens in his riper age. [gage ; PROLOGUE TO ALBION AND ALBAN1US. FULL twenty years and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 páginas
...strongly portrayed : Oxford to him a dearer name shall he, Than his own motherunlverslty ; • Thehes did his green unknowing youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age That this compliment to Oxford was as sincere as it was elegant, has heen douhted or denied hy Dryden's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 páginas
...of the place, which In his time was called Aof s* 3 [" Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than Ms own mother-university : Thebes did his green, unknowing...youth engage ; He chooses Athens In his riper age." / 1 ,/;,.':>/ V Prologue to Ike Unirersity of Oxford.] Hurd, " Discourses on Poetical Imitation." -0... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 páginas
...because of its discouraging the staple commodity of the place, which In his time was called hogi' * f." Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age." I) rydex'i Prologue IP ikt Vtineriily </ <>,-/<<.:'.! Hard, " Discourses on Poetical Imitation." the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 páginas
...because of its discouraging the staple commodity of the place, which In his time was called hogi' 3 ['* Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...mother-university : Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage ; Ho chooses Athens in his riper age." Dryden's Prologue to the Uttitenity of Oxford.} > Hurd, " Discourse*... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 páginas
...University of OxJonl " Oxford to him a dearer name shall bo Than lúe own mother university ; i Thclx>* did his green unknowing youth engage. He chooses Athens in his riper age»" Botli poets had received some cennure from their AJma Mater. ¿ .Swift's Works, Vol. XV. p. 352. IT... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 páginas
...seven years to Dublin college : " Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than hia own mother university ; Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age." — (Dryden.) The reception which he thus met with in the firs seat of British learning, independent... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 páginas
...place, which in his time was called koge1 tkeoring." * Hard, " Discourse» on Poetical Imitation." » [" Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age." Dryden'i Prologue to lAe VHitcrtitg qf Otfard.\ the universities are supposed to exercise over the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 páginas
...of which he had written — " Oxford to him a dearer name shall bo Than his own mother University : Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age ; " and an intercourse began, which if Macaulay's conjecture be true, had a decisive influence upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 páginas
...education in the college with gratitude ; u but in a prologue at Oxford he has these lines : — " Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age." " It was not till the death of Cromwell,13 in 1658 [Sept. 3], that he became a public candidate for... | |
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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. 
