Lachrymae Academicae: Or, The Present Deplorable State of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin ...author, 1777 - 326 pages |
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Page 156 - the children of this world are wifer in their generation than the ** children of light...
Page 152 - Will magifterially out-mine us. Then, left with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Tranflated from Boileau's tranflation, And quote quotation on quotation. At Will's you hear a poem read, Where Battus, from the table-head, Reclining on his elbow-chair, Gives judgement with decifive air; To whom the tribe of circling wits, As to an oracle, fubmits. He gives direftions to the town To cry it up, or run it down ; Like courtiers, when they fend a note, Inftrufting...
Page 55 - The College walks and gardens,' says he, ' heretofore sacred to the exercise and contemplation of the sober academic, are now infested by himself and military officers, mounted on prancing horses; his wife and adult daughters with their train of female companions, and his infant children, their nurses and go-carts ; who by their pomp and clamour have banished the muses and may probably be the authors of greater and more serious evils.
Page 61 - The author states that the work is not in his own handwriting, but in that of his secretary, to whom he dictated during eleven years four hours each day, two in the morning, and two in the afternoon — and that he commenced his formidable task in the year 1664, when he was living in retirement in his Commanderie of St. Eugene in Limousin; and, despite his advanced age, "in possession of all his faculties as perfectly as when he had only reached his twenty-fifth year.
Page 54 - College, was decent and regular, and, as a man of integrity and honour, his character was unexceptionable...
Page 75 - ... Latin and includes the whole circle of the sciences. It will readily be believed that this was a severe probation for such a smatterer as Hutchinson. Of the numberless anecdotes illustrative of the perplexity in which he was at times involved, the following is not the least amusing specimen. He asked one of the candidates in very bad Latin ' at what period eloquence flourished most amongst the Greeks?
Page 324 - ... this molten calf, and pasteboard Goliath. As this remedy might fail, from the uncertainty of all events in this world, Duigenan pointed out two other remedies, the application of which lay with the King. One was to have the Provost's patent voided by a scire facias, and the other was to deprive him of all power, authority, or revenue in the college, during his life. His authority was to be transferred to the Board, and bis revenue to be appropriated to pay for the new building.
Page 82 - College to a family borough, fo as always to have it in his power, to nominate two of his Tons, or dependants, it's reprefentatives in parliament.