 | John Henry Overton - 1902 - 524 Seiten
...one of the allegations brought by Gibbon, the historian, against the fellows of Magdalen was that ' their constitutional toasts were not expressive of...the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover.' 1 This was in 1752, when Jacobitism was fast dying out all over the kingdom ; and, if the old feeling... | |
 | William Francis Barry - 1904 - 286 Seiten
...withered on the ground . . . Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ; their dull...the most lively loyalty for the House of Hanover." From this " vulgar mediocrity," as Mark Pattison terms it, Oxford was awakened to higher thoughts,... | |
 | William Francis Barry - 1904 - 286 Seiten
...stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal; their i dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance...the most lively loyalty for the House of Hanover." From this " vulgar mediocrity," as Mark Pattison terms it, Oxford was awakened to higher thoughts,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 Seiten
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull...contest already blazed with all the malevolence of party zeal. Magdalen College was devoutly attached to the old interest; and the names of Wenman and... | |
 | 1911 - 492 Seiten
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ; their dull...contest already blazed with all the malevolence of party zeal. Magdalen College was devotedly attached to the old interest ; and the names of Wenman and... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 Seiten
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull...contest already blazed with all the malevolence of party zeal. Magdalen College was devoutly attached to the old interest ; and the names of Wenman and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 Seiten
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ; their dull...the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover. . . . The example of the senior fellows could not inspire the undergraduates with a liberal spirit... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 Seiten
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ; their dull...the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover. . . . The example of the senior fellows could not inspire the undergraduates with a liberal spirit... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 Seiten
...topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ; their dull...the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover. . . . The example of the senior fellows could not inspire the undergraduates with a liberal spirit... | |
 | Clarissa Rinaker - 1916 - 260 Seiten
...expected them to discuss, 'their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth.'" For clever satirical descriptions of the abuse of academic privilege which was almost universal at... | |
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I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and fondly expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes,... 
