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Pagina 19
... , the front of which , immediately opposite , is a re- gular , handsome structure , extending to the length of 220 feet , lighted by ranges of uniform windows € 2 WALKS IN OXFORD . 19 oline Jenkins, Bishop Lloyd, and Dr. Jonathan ...
... , the front of which , immediately opposite , is a re- gular , handsome structure , extending to the length of 220 feet , lighted by ranges of uniform windows € 2 WALKS IN OXFORD . 19 oline Jenkins, Bishop Lloyd, and Dr. Jonathan ...
Pagina 20
W M. Wade. of 220 feet , lighted by ranges of uniform windows , and adorned by a central gateway and tower of some magnificence . The very conspicuous or- nament , however , which these form is , unfortu- nately , not in harmony of style ...
W M. Wade. of 220 feet , lighted by ranges of uniform windows , and adorned by a central gateway and tower of some magnificence . The very conspicuous or- nament , however , which these form is , unfortu- nately , not in harmony of style ...
Pagina 54
... feet , and in breadth , exclu- sive of the recess , thirty - two and a half . Opposite to the entrance is a fine marble statue of Colonel Christopher Codrington , the gentleman to whom All Souls is indebted for her noble repository of ...
... feet , and in breadth , exclu- sive of the recess , thirty - two and a half . Opposite to the entrance is a fine marble statue of Colonel Christopher Codrington , the gentleman to whom All Souls is indebted for her noble repository of ...
Pagina 131
... feet , forming a handsome elevation of three stories . The front rests upon a piazza , the roof of which is tastefully wrought in stucco . The rooms , which are disposed in three lofty ranges , are nearly uniform in size , and are ...
... feet , forming a handsome elevation of three stories . The front rests upon a piazza , the roof of which is tastefully wrought in stucco . The rooms , which are disposed in three lofty ranges , are nearly uniform in size , and are ...
Pagina 134
... feet , its girth 21 , and its cubic contents were 754 feet . A chair made from some of the timber is preserved in the President's lodgings . Third Day's Walk . COMMENCING from the usual point our 134 WALKS IN OXFORD . musing on the ...
... feet , its girth 21 , and its cubic contents were 754 feet . A chair made from some of the timber is preserved in the President's lodgings . Third Day's Walk . COMMENCING from the usual point our 134 WALKS IN OXFORD . musing on the ...
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Pagina 220 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 251 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Pagina 184 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious earth. "A city stands on Argos...
Pagina 220 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Pagina 229 - What! my lord, shall we build houses, and provide livelihoods for a company of monks, whose end and fall we ourselves may live to see ? No, no, it is more meet a great deal, that We should have care to provide for the increase of learning, and for such as who by their learning shall do good to the church and commonwealth.
Pagina 251 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading: Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not, But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. And though he were unsatisfied in getting, Which was a sin, yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely...
Pagina 190 - No more the matchless skill I call unkind, That strives to disenchant my cheated mind. For when again I view thy chaste design, The just proportion, and the genuine line; Those native portraitures of Attic art, That from the lucid surface seem to start; Those tints, that steal no glories from the day, Nor ask the sun to lend his streaming ray...
Pagina 184 - Like Leaves on Trees the Race of Man is found, Now green in Youth, now with'ring on the Ground, Another Race the following Spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So Generations in their Course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Pagina 335 - Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the PrintingHouse, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of the last month in Lent Term, and the end of the third week in Act Term.
Pagina 218 - being accounted the best book of the kind, my " pen cannot enough describe how A. Wood's " tender affections and insatiable desire of know" ledge were ravished, and melted down, by the " reading of that book. What by music, and rare " books that he found in the public library, his " life at this time and after was a perfect elysium.