 | Henry Drury - 1865 - 430 pagini
...loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal Body wanted learning. ANON. THE King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force : On th' other hand to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. ANON. DICK cannot... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pagini
...presence of Sir William Browne, the physician, was answered by him 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. Johnson did Sir William the justice to say, " it was one of the happiest extemporaneous productions... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper - 1866 - 508 pagini
...commended by Dr. Johnson, has been considered inferior to the original : The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse : For tories own no argument but force. With equal care to Cambridge books he sent : Forwhigs allow no force but argument. Robert Cannon, DD, sometime fellow of King's college, gave... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1873 - 720 pagini
...noble University Library — and which gave rise to a sneering epigram, which was thus answered : — "The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force. With equal wit to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. " One of my " reminiscences... | |
 | 1869 - 438 pagini
...discemmj How much that body wanted learning. THE ANSW». The King to Oxford sent his troop of hone, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. The books were received Nov. 19, 20, &c. 1715. The King purchased them for« thousand guineas, and... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 512 pagini
...To this Sir William Browne replied : — The King to Oxford sent Ms troop of horse, For Tories hold no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. CHAFTEK IX. ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Dr. Stackhouse writes a Biography of the... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 500 pagini
...Browne replied : — The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories hold no argument but farce ; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. CHAPTEE IX. ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Dr. Stackhouse writes a Biography of the... | |
 | Sabin J. and sons - 1869 - 466 pagini
...discerning How much that body wanted learning. TNI ANSW». The King to Oxford sent his troop of hone, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care to Cambridge books he lent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. The books were received Nov. 19, 20, &c. 1715. The King... | |
 | 1870 - 672 pagini
...the moment when, as it happened, a regiment of cavalry was being despatched to Oxford, in 1751 : " The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." This, it will be remembered, was in reply to Dr. Trapp's witticism on the same occasion, in the Oxford... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pagini
...tlie honour of Cambridge, of which he was a graduate, and answered, impromptu (Nichols, Be above) : The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he Bent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. Dr. Johnson's opinion of this... | |
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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. 
