In Praise of Oxford: History and topographyConstable, Limited, 1910 |
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Page 326 - Well! wind-dispersed and vain the words will be; Yet, Thyrsis, let me give my grief its hour In the old haunt, and find our tree-topped hill! Who, if not I, for questing here hath power? I know the wood which hides the daffodil; I know the Fyfield tree; I know what white, what purple fritillaries The grassy harvest of the river-fields, Above by Ensham, down by Sandford, yields; And what sedged brooks are Thames's tributaries; I know these slopes: who knows them if not I?
Page 93 - 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 327 - But hush! the upland hath a sudden loss Of quiet! — Look, adown the dusk hill-side, A troop of Oxford hunters going home, As in old days, jovial and talking, ride!
Page 264 - To Banbury came I, O profane one, Where I saw a PuritAne one Hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
Page 232 - In a light, scoffing tone, florid and fluent, he assured us there was nothing in the idea of evolution ; rock-pigeons were what rock-pigeons had always been. Then, turning to his antagonist with a smiling insolence, he begged to know, was it through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey ? " f C This was the fatal mistake of his speech.
Page 114 - I tell you, sirs, that I judge no land in England better bestowed than that which is given to our universities ; for by their maintenance our realm shall be well governed when we be dead and rotten.
Page 327 - Yes, thou art gone! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see her veil draw soft across the day, I feel her slowly chilling breath invade The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with...
Page 54 - Croydon the Vintner brought them some, but they disliking it, as it should seem, and he avouching it to be good, several snappish words passed between them. At length the Vintner giving them stubborn and saucy language, they threw the wine and vessel at his head.
Page 97 - And now I come to the great thing which so much troubleth my conscience, more than any thing that ever I did or said in my whole life, and that is the setting abroad of a writing contrary to the truth ; which now here 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 148 - His Latin and Greek stood him in little stead ; he was to give an account only of the state of his soul, whether he was of the number of the elect ; what was the occasion of his conversion ; upon what day of the month, and hour of the day it happened ; how it was carried on, and when compleated. The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, ' Whether he was prepared for death...