 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 pagini
...the honour of Cambridge, of which he was a graduate, and answered, impromptu (Nichols, :is above) : The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. L)r. Johnson's opinion of... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 406 pagini
...gave, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. ANSWERED BY SIR WILLIAM BROWNE. The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. 633. AN Hibernian, who had taken a tour through the .^ northern counties of England, observed that... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1871 - 342 pagini
...their first laugh out, when a Cantabrigian retaliated, with finer finish and keener point;— ' Our king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.' Without denying merit to the epigram which provoked the telling reply, even Oxonian readers of these... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 pagini
...as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. THE ANSWER. 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. TO A CONTEMPTIBLE AUTHOR, WHO HAD WRITTEN THE EPITAPH OF A GOOD POET. Fi'om Le Brun. ON Stephen's tomb... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1874 - 510 pagini
...extorted praise, even from Johnson himself, in favour of a Cambridge man. The TCing to Oxford sent hia troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force....books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." Nobles continuation of Granger ii. 89. wrote in reply to Hobbes, a Latin treatise, On the Laws of Nature,... | |
 | 1874 - 776 pagini
...wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. ' EVERYTHING ' — says Hartley... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1874 - 508 pagini
...extorted praise, even from Johnson himself, in favour of a Cambridge man. The King to Oxford sent hia troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force. "With equal care, to Cambridge hooks ho sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument" Noble's continuation of Granger wrote in reply... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 pagini
...the honour of Cambridge, of which he was a graduate, and answered, impromptu (NichoL-. as above) : The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but foroe;. With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. Dr. Johnson's... | |
 | 1876 - 898 pagini
...Norwich, wrote a reply, which extorted praise from l3r. Johnson himself in favour of a Cambridge man. " The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument." LONGEVITY OF VETF.RANS. — The Massachusetts " Worcester Spy" says : — "The extraordinary longevity... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Raby - 1909 - 168 pagini
...Cambridge man's impromptu about Charles I. the cleverest he had heard : "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 ; ' ' against Scotchmen and pensions, yet afterwards he accepted a pension from George III. obtained... | |
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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. 
