 | Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 pagini
...wanted learning." Retaliated by Sir W. Browne, founder of the prizes for odes and epigrams : — " The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he scnl, For Whigs admit no force but argument." Bentley seems at this time... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1840 - 446 pagini
...impromtu to the following effect : — " The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For tories know no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge...books he sent, For whigs allow no force but argument." 1717. TRIAL OP OXFORD. 65 that the time was come when he might venture to throw himself fearlessly... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1840 - 646 pagini
...wittily replied : — The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse : For tories own no argument hut farce. With equal care to Cambridge books he sent : For whigs allow no force, but argument. (Bcntham's Hist, of Ely ; Clarke's Preface as quoted ; Noble's Cont. of Grainger.) Dr. Richard Cumberland,... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1841 - 662 pagini
...Peter House in Cambridge, Sir William Browne, wrote the following reply : " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force...he sent, ' For Whigs allow no force but argument." Since this period the University Library has been greatly enlarged, not only by the copies of all new... | |
 | Edward Mahon Roose - 1842 - 476 pagini
...extorted praise even from Johnson himself, in favour of a Cambridge man : — "The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse; For Tories own no argument but force....books he sent ; For Whigs allow no force but argument. The library of Trinity College is highly valuable, and contained in a very magnificent structure built... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 pagini
...learning." Which, says Sir William, might well be answered thus: — " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." Mr. Johnson did him the justice to say, it was one of the happiest extemporaneous productions he ever... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pagini
...learning." Which, says Sir William, might well be answered thus: — " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." Mr. Johnson did him the justice to say, it was one of the happiest extemporaneous productions he ever... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pagini
...of having been written impromptu : — " The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories know no argument but force. With equal care, to Cambridge...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." The circumstance, perhaps, is a curious one, that, notwithstanding the excited state of partyfeeling... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 476 pagini
...merit of having been written impromptu :— " The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories know no argument but force. With equal care, to Cambridge...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." The circumstance, perhaps, is a curious one, that, notwithstanding the excited state of partyfeeling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pagini
...wanted learning.' Which, says Sir William, might well be answered thus: ' The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For tories own no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge books he ser.t, For whigs allow no force but argument.' " Dr. Johnson did him the justice to say, it was one... | |
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The king to Oxford sent his 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. 
