 | James Hay - 1891 - 392 páginas
...so with Dryden, who writes : 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. It was so with Johnson. Despite the ridiculing by the Christ Church men of his ragged shoes, Johnson... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell, John Frederick Stanford - 1891 - 868 páginas
...and prosperity: 11. A. Sun i.rK--s, m Sir W. Jones' Letters, Vol. i. No. Ixiii. p. 149 d -;.<!). 1808 that veneration usually paid by an English scholar to his Alma Mater : SCOTT, Dryden's Wks., Vol. I. p. 30. 1808 the publication of which must have been a proud day for... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 páginas
...delivered at Oxford in i68r. Oxford to him a dearer name shall be, 35 Than his own mother- university. Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage , He chooses Athens in his riper age. EPILOGUE TO "THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE, OR THE EARL OF ESSEX."* 1682. WE act by fits and starts, like drowning... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 630 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." During this busy period, Dryden's domestic life had been comparatively uneventful. His eldest son had... | |
 | 1895 - 610 páginas
...provincial baud. 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. During this busy period, Dryden's domestic life had been comparatively uneventful. His eldest son had... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1895 - 398 páginas
...his prologues; those, for instance, in which he indicates his preference for the loyal Oxford : — " Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age : " or those in which he pays a courtly compliment to the Duchess of York on her return from Scotland... | |
 | William Rhys Roberts - 1895 - 112 páginas
...of Cambridge. 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. And not in Dryden only but in English literature generally the Boeotians and their country have fared... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 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." When the king was restored, Dryden,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1896 - 158 páginas
...In a prologue he says: — " 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." This evident disloyalty has been the subject of much discussion, but it seems natural in his case.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1896 - 158 páginas
...prologue he says : — " Oxford to him a dearer name shall he Thau his own mother university ; Thehes did his green unknowing youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age." This evident disloyalty has been the subject of much discussion, but it seems natural in his case.... | |
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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. 
