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afterwards Andrew Perne architect architectural became a Fellow Bentley bridge built CAIUS COLLEGE Chancellor CHARM OF CAMBRIDGE Christ's CLARE COLLEGE cloister college buildings Combination Room commemorated corner CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE Denny Abbey Divinity Dr Caius eighteenth century elected entered the college Erasmus erected famous Fitzwilliam foundation founder Foundress gallery garden GATE OF HONOUR GONVILLE AND CAIUS Gothic Gray Henry Holy Hostel Hugh de Balsham JESUS COLLEGE John Jowett King KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL Lane later Latin learning MAGDALENE COLLEGE Master of Peterhouse Master's Lodge Mastership Michaelhouse Milton NEVILE'S COURT Newton nineteenth century Old Court original Oxford PEMBROKE COLLEGE Peterhouse poem poets preached PRESIDENT'S LODGE Queens royal scholars Second Court seen Senate House sermons seventeenth century side SIDNEY SUSSEX St Catharine's ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ST MARY'S CHURCH stands Thomas to-day TRINITY COLLEGE Trinity Hall Trumpington Street undergraduates walls William Wren wrote
Popular passages
Page 41 - Scholars only— this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence ! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Page 110 - What little suppers, or sizings, as they were called, have I enjoyed ; when jEschylus, and Plato, and Thucydides were pushed aside, with a pile of lexicons, &c. to discuss the pamphlets of the day. Ever and anon, a pamphlet issued from the pen of Burke. There was no need of having the book before us. Coleridge had read it in the morning, and in the evening he would repeat whole pages verbatim.
Page 119 - Here lies old Hobson. Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else, the ways being foul, twenty to one He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
Page 127 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 86 - And caught once more the distant shout. The measured pulse of racing oars Among the willows ; paced the shores And many a bridge, and all about The same gray flats again, and felt The same, but not the same; and last Up that long walk of limes I past To see the rooms in which he dwelt.
Page 62 - ... at nineteen, I left the University of Cambridge, where I was an absolute pedant; when I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial; and when 1 had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid.
Page 61 - If you would know the mind of little Jowett This little garden doth a little show it.
Page 116 - Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all ; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and every thing as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Page 94 - And yet not utterly. I could not print Ground where the grass had yielded to the steps Of generations of illustrious men, Unmoved. I could not always lightly pass Through the same gateways, sleep where they had slept, Wake where they waked, range that inclosure old, That garden of great intellects, undisturbed.
Page 61 - From Paul's I went, to Eton sent, To learn straightways the Latin phrase, Where fifty-three stripes given to me At once I had. For fault but small, or none at all, It came to pass thus beat I was; See, Udal, see the mercy of thee To me, poor lad.