...mentions his education in the college with gratitude ; hut 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,...

...Oxford he has these lines : — " Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-imiversity ; Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age." u It was not till the death of Cromwell,13 in 1658 [Sept. 3], that he became a public candidate for...

...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...

...application. He took the degree of Bachelor, in January 1653—4, but neither became Master of Arts, nor a Fellow of the university, and certainly never...veneration usually paid by an English scholar to his Alma Muter. In June 1654, the death of his father, Erasmus Dryden, proved a temporary interruption to our...

...undergraduate of Cambridge : — 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 ! WHY do theatrical managers talk of Complimentary admissions? Where's the compliment ? They give orders...

...hopes pursue, Who, with religion, loves your arts and you, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Thau his own mother-University. Thebes did his green, unknowing,...youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age." The usual mode of quoting the four last lines of the Prologue, without reference to the whole of the...

...is thus strongly portrayed : 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. That this compliment to Oxford was as sincere as it was elegant, has been doubted or denied by Dryden's...

...Dryden, did indeed take his first degree at Cambridge ; but, as one of his biographers has told us, " he certainly never retained for it much of that veneration...usually paid by an English scholar to his Alma Mater." More than a hundred years had to pass over England before either University should receive unawares...

...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,...

...University of Oxford " he says : — " 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." By the death of his father, in 1654, he came into possession of a small estate of sixty pounds a year,...