The Story of CambridgeJ.M. Dent & Company, 1905 - 355 עמודים |
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ancient Anno arch Archbishop of Canterbury architect arms Benefactor Bishop Fisher Bishop of Ely bridge Buckingham College built Caius called Cambridge Canon Castle chancel Chancellor chapter Charles Christ Christ's College Church Clare Clare Hall cloister COLLEGE PORTRAITS Combination Room copy Corpus Christi court Dean Divinity Duke Earl early east Edward Elizabeth Elizabeth Woodville Emmanuel England English Erasmus erected Fellow fifteenth century Fisher foundation founder Foundress France Franciscan gate gateway Guild Henry VIII honour Hostel Hugh de Balsham Isaac Jesus College John John's College King Henry King's College King's Hall Lady Margaret Lane later learning Library Lord Mary Master Master's Lodge Michaelhouse modern monastery monastic monks original Oxford Pembroke Peterhouse present Professor quadrangle Queen Richard river Robert royal scholars School Sidney Sidney Sussex College south side statutes Street Thomas tion town Trinity Hall University walls Walter Mildmay William
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עמוד 282 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
עמוד 128 - TAX not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned — Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed 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...
עמוד 9 - And as in other Fairs of less moment, there are the several Rows and Streets under their proper names, where such and such Wares are vended ; so here likewise you have the proper places, Rows, Streets, (viz.
עמוד 9 - Fair : it is kept all the year long ; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity ; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise,
עמוד 9 - Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair ; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold as houses, lands, trades, places, honours, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures; and delights of all sorts, as harlots, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.
עמוד 316 - King George, observing with judicious eyes The state of both his Universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse, and why? — That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
עמוד 243 - With clustering ivy, and the lightsome twigs And outer spray profusely tipped with seeds That hung in yellow tassels, while the air Stirred them, not voiceless. Often have I stood Foot-bound uplooking at this lovely tree Beneath a frosty moon. The hemisphere Of magic fiction, verse of mine perchance May never tread...
עמוד 128 - 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.
עמוד 226 - For which commodious lie, that he may be encouraged in the trade another time, I thank him; for it hath given me an apt occasion to acknowledge publicly with all grateful mind, that more than ordinary favour and respect which I found above any of my equals at the hands of those courteous and learned men, the fellows of that college wherein I spent some years...