The Story of OxfordJ. M. Dent & Company, 1907 - 435 pages |
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Abbey Abingdon afterwards Aldate's Archbishop Balliol beautiful Bishop Bishop of Lincoln Bocardo Bodleian Bodley Bridge buildings built Cambridge Carfax Castle Cathedral century Chancellor Chapel Charles Cherwell Christ Church Christ Church meadow clerks cloister College common court Cranmer D'Oigli Divinity east ecclesiastical Edward endowed England English erected Exeter fellows Folly Bridge foundation founder Friars Frides Frideswide Frideswide's front quadrangle Garden gateway gown Hall Henry Henry III High Street John King King's learning lectures Lincoln lodgings Lollards London Lord Magdalen Magdalen College Mary Mary's mayor medieval Merton monasteries monks Oriel Oriel College Osney Osney Abbey Oxford Paris Parliament Pope Quad Queen restored royal Saints schools side Souls statutes T. G. Jackson theology Thomas tion Tom Quad took tower town townsmen Turl Street University wall whilst William William of Wykeham Wolsey Wood Worcester College Wycliffe Wykeham
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Page 170 - Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
Page 321 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 346 - What a place to be in is an old library ! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves — their winding sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade.
Page 401 - The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
Page 170 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page 321 - Be of good heart, brother, for God will either assuage the fury of the flame, or else strengthen us to abide it.
Page 377 - I do not like thee, Dr Fell. The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr Fell.
Page 341 - Whereupon examining exactly for the rest of my life what course I might take, and having sought (as I thought) all the ways to the wood, to select the most proper, I concluded at the last to set up my staff at the library door in Oxon, being thoroughly persuaded, that in my solitude and surcease from the commonwealth affairs, I could not busy myself to better purpose...
Page 325 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life if it might be...
Page 170 - A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also That un-to logik hadde longe y-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But loked holwe, and ther-to soberly. Ful thredbar was his overest courtepy; For he had geten him yet no benefyce, Ne was so worldly for to have offyce.