 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.  Dryden - Página 12de George Saintsbury - 1902 - 196 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 páginas
...only mentions Cambridge as the contrast of the sister university 'in point of taste and learning : " Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age."* A preference so uncommon, in one who had studied at Cambridge, probably originated in some cause of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 páginas
...religion, loves your arts and you, 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. * Alluding to the Roman citizens, who had the right of voting, denied to the lower, or provincial orders.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 480 páginas
...religion, loves your arts and yon, 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. * Alluding to the Roman citizens, who had the right of voting, denied to the lower, or provincial orders.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 páginas
...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 citizens, who had the right of voting, denied to the lower, or provincial orders.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 páginas
...only mentions Cambridge as the contrast of the sister university in point of taste and learning : " Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age."* A preference so uncommon, in one who had studied at Cambridge, probably originated in those slight... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 498 páginas
...loves your arts and you, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university. Thebes f did his green, unknowing, 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.... | |
 | 1822 - 314 páginas
...religion, loves your arts and you; 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. TO THE DISAPPOINTMENT: OR, THE MOTHER IN FASHION. BY SOUTHERN. 1684. SPOKEN BY MR. BETTERTON. How comes... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 556 páginas
...* The passage reminds us of a similar expression in Dryden's prologue to the University of Oxford. Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age. Both poets had received some censure from their Alma Mater. t Vol. XV. p. 252. $ These verses were... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 páginas
...only mentions Cambridge as the contrast of the sister university in point of taste and learning : « Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age. »3 A preference so uncommon, in one who had studied at Cambridge, probably originated in those slight... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 páginas
...only mentions Cambridge as the contrast of the sister university in point of taste and learning : 'i Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age. »3 A preference so uncommon, in one who had .studied at Cambridge, probably originated in those slight... | |
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