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... tell you 30 31 5 CAMBRIDGE PARTIES , BY TWO DISTINGUISHED CANTABS : Water - Parties Breakfast - Parties The Long Vacation ....... ................. 167 182 189 Facetiæ Cantabrigienses . UTOPIA . A Satire , in imitation CONTENTS .
... tell you 30 31 5 CAMBRIDGE PARTIES , BY TWO DISTINGUISHED CANTABS : Water - Parties Breakfast - Parties The Long Vacation ....... ................. 167 182 189 Facetiæ Cantabrigienses . UTOPIA . A Satire , in imitation CONTENTS .
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... TELL YOU . " Mr. Neville , formerly a fellow of Jesus College , was greatly respected for his peaceable and inoffensive man- ners , but distinguished by many innocent singularities , uncommon shyness , and stammering of speech . Dr ...
... TELL YOU . " Mr. Neville , formerly a fellow of Jesus College , was greatly respected for his peaceable and inoffensive man- ners , but distinguished by many innocent singularities , uncommon shyness , and stammering of speech . Dr ...
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... tell me , is the idea of a salt - box a salt idea ? Student . - Not unless the idea hath the idea of salt con- tained in it . Professor . - True : and therefore an abstract idea can- not be either salt or fresh , round or square , long ...
... tell me , is the idea of a salt - box a salt idea ? Student . - Not unless the idea hath the idea of salt con- tained in it . Professor . - True : and therefore an abstract idea can- not be either salt or fresh , round or square , long ...
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... tell what followed , but the subsequent clause . But to proceed he quoted a similar passage from Bion , which , consisting of a broken line , a whole verse , and a broken one , he made the most of them , and thundered them out with a ...
... tell what followed , but the subsequent clause . But to proceed he quoted a similar passage from Bion , which , consisting of a broken line , a whole verse , and a broken one , he made the most of them , and thundered them out with a ...
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... tell the president of your listening at my door ! " STOMACHUM . When Morton , afterwards Bishop of Durham , stood for the degree of D.D. at Cambridge , he advanced some- thing which was displeasing to the professor , who ex- claimed ...
... tell the president of your listening at my door ! " STOMACHUM . When Morton , afterwards Bishop of Durham , stood for the degree of D.D. at Cambridge , he advanced some- thing which was displeasing to the professor , who ex- claimed ...
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Page 177 - There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek — There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 56 - Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune : Could love and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit ;— he believed in a God. A post or a pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire.
Page 77 - Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Page 167 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Page 170 - By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see (For one who hath no friend, no brother there) Their rival scarfs of mix'd embroidery, Their various arms that glitter in the air!
Page 162 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 51 - I, that have borne a bag, be not now in my age forced in effect to bear a wallet; nor I, that desire to live to study, may not be driven to study to live.
Page 20 - Dashington ; a youth excelling In all the learning commonly provided For those who choose that classic station For finishing their education. That is — he understood computing The odds at any race or match ; Was a dead hand at pigeon-shooting ; Could kick up rows, knock down the watch, Play truant and the rake at random, Drink, tie cravats, and drive a tandem.
Page 138 - Gone to salute the rising morn. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 138 - Fell thirst and famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havoc urge their destined course, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way.