 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 pagini
...retorted with this very clever improvisation : The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tom-s know no argument but force ; With equal care to Cambridge...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. The following is credited to the poet Praed, who, while a member in Parliament and observing the Speaker... | |
 | Samuel Fletcher Hulton - 1909 - 480 pagini
...How much that loyal body wanted learning. JOSEPH TRAPP, Wadham College, Oxford THE CAMBRIDGE REPLY 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. SIR WILLIAM BROWNE, Peterhouse,... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - 784 pagini
...learning. To which William Browne (the founder of the Browne medals) replied on behalf of Cambridge : — 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.] '[This catalogue was printed... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1909 - 456 pagini
...wrongly — been ascribed the lines on George the First's gift of a valuable library to Cambridge : The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument hut force ; With equal care to Camhridge hooks he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. Trapp,... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1910 - 568 pagini
...They were written by Sir William Browne, the founder of the University Prize 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 sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument." Strange indeed was the freak... | |
 | 1911 - 442 pagini
...says Sir William Browne, the physician, 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 pagini
...discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. J. TRAPP. 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. SIR W. BROWNE. AGAINST WRITERS THAT CARP AT OTHER MEN 8 BOOKS THE readers and the hearers like my books,... | |
 | 1911 - 492 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...books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.' Johnson Miscellanies, ed. by G. Birkbeck Hill. Clarendon Press, 1897. BESIDES the libraries of RadclifTe... | |
 | Sydney Waterlow - 1912 - 246 pagini
...discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For lories own no argument but force. With equal care, to Cambridge...books he sent : For whigs allow no force but argument. Dr. William Browne, 1692-1774. From Kic&ard CONSIDER me very seriously here in a strange country, inhabited... | |
 | Sydney Waterlow - 1912 - 244 pagini
...Reply by Dr. Browne The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For tories own no argument but farce. With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent: For whigs allow no force but argument. Dr. William Browne, 1692-1774. From Richard CONSIDER me very seriously here in a strange country, inhabited... | |
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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. 
