| Thomas Love Peacock - 1926 - 484 pages
...continue here till Michaelmas ; but I fear I must come to town much sooner, p. ix. 105 H Cambridge is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it....friend Dr. (one of its nuisances) is not expected here in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with five fine mackerel (large and full of roe) in his belly. He... | |
| Gamaliel Bradford - Authors - 1924 - 376 pages
...reminded of Heine's cruel branding of the university life of Gottingen. "Cambridge is a delight of a 73 place now there is nobody in it. I do believe you...it, if you knew what it was without inhabitants." 15 As to said inhabitants, his comment is too often such as he makes on Dr. Chapman: "Our friend Dr.... | |
| American literature - 1924 - 902 pages
...Gallery Heine's cruel branding of the university life of Göttingen. "Cambridge is a delight of a piare now there is nobody in it. I do believe you would...it, if you knew what it was without inhabitants." As to said inhabitants, his comment is too often such as he makes on Doctor Chapman: "Our friend Doctor... | |
| Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1926 - 206 pages
...scene, it must be confessed) till Michaelmas ; but I fear I must come to town much sooner. Cambridge is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it....that get it an ill name and spoil all. Our friend Dr. Chapman (one of its nuisances) is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - Authorship - 1926 - 234 pages
...international relationships are barbarous and hostile in their essence. To Dr Clarke, 1760 :— " Cambridge is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it....that get it an ill name, and spoil all. Our friend Dr Chapman (one of its nuisances) is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with... | |
| Sydney Castle Roberts - English literature - 1958 - 192 pages
...middle-aged dons of all periods, was beginning to appreciate Cambridge for its own sake: Cambridge is a delight of a place, now there is nobody in it....believe you would like it if you knew what it was like without inhabitants. It is they, I assure you, that get it an ill name and spoil all. Our friend... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1845 - 774 pages
...tear I must come to town much sonner. Cambridge i» a delight of a place now there is nobody in it. 1 do believe you would like it, if you knew what it was without inhabitants. It is they, I assure you, who get it an ill name and spoil it." So far Gray ; but some o(' the residents, MA's of forty years'... | |
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