 | John Bell - English poetry - 1778 - 438 pages
...hopes pursue, Who, with religion, loves your arts and you, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be 35 Than his own mother-university. Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage He chuses Athens in hit riper age. 3! XV. PROLOGUE /0 THE DISAPPOINTMENT: Of, THE MOTHER IN FASHION. By... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...mentions his education in the College with gratitude ; but, in a prologue at Oxford, he has these lines i Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university ; Thebes did his rude unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper agf . It was not till the death of Cromwell,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...band. If his ambition may those hopes pursue, Who, with religion, loves your arts uud you. VOL. III. P Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage ; He chuses Athens in his riper age. PROLOGUE TO THE DISAPPOINTMENT: OR THE MOTHER IN FASHION. [By Mr. SOUTHERN,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...had you not fled." J He received this degree by dispensation from the Archbishop of Canterbury ^ or a fellow of the university, and certainly never retained...Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother university : Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age."*... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 pages
...provincial band. If his ambition may those hopes pursue, Who, with religion, loves your arts and you, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age. * Alluding to the Roman citizens, who had the right of voting, denied to the lower, or provincial orders.... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 480 pages
...provincial band. If his ambition may those hopes pursue, Who, with religion, loves your arts and yon, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age. * Alluding to the Roman citizens, who had the right of voting, denied to the lower, or provincial orders.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 474 pages
...provincial band. If his ambition may those hopes pursue, Who, with religion, loves your arts and you, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university. Thebes t did his green, unknowing, youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age. * Alluding to the Roman... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...and m 1657 was made master of arts. G. gratitude ; but, in a prologue at Oxford, he has these Hues : Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university ; Thebes did hts rude, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age It was not till the death of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...mentions his education in the College with gratitude j but, in a prologue at Oxford, he has these lines : Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university ; Thebes did his rude, unknowing youth engage : He chooses Athens in his riper age. It was not till the death of Cromwell,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...mentions his education in the College with gratitude ; but, in a prologue at Oxford, he has these lines: Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university ; Thebes did his rude, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age. It was not till the death of Cromwell,... | |
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Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university ; Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age. 
