...his time was called Aof s* 3 [" Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than Ms own mother-university : Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens In his riper age." / 1 ,/;,.':>/ V Prologue to Ike Unirersity of Oxford.] Hurd, " Discourses on Poetical Imitation." -0...

...University of OxJonl " Oxford to him a dearer name shall bo Than lúe own mother university ; i Thclx>* did his green unknowing youth engage. He chooses Athens in his riper age»" Botli poets had received some cennure from their AJma Mater. ¿ .Swift's Works, Vol. XV. p. 352. IT...

...ever he had been in seven years to Dublin college : " Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than hia own mother university ; Thebes did his green unknowing...youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age." — (Dryden.) The reception which he thus met with in the firs seat of British learning, independent...

...on Poetical Imitation." » [" 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'i Prologue to lAe VHitcrtitg qf Otfard.\ the universities are supposed to exercise over the...

...promising scholar from the University of which he had written — " Oxford to him a dearer name shall bo Than his own mother University : Thebes did his green,...youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age ; " and an intercourse began, which if Macaulay's conjecture be true, had a decisive influence upon...

...respect. In one of his late prologues, a contrast unfavourable to Cambridge is thus strongly portrayed : Oxford to him a dearer name shall be, Than his own...his green unknowing youth engage, He chooses Athens iu his riper age. That this compliment to Oxford was as sincere as it was elegant, has been doubted...

...promising scholar from the University of which he had written — "Oxford to him a dearer name shall bo Than his own mother University : Thebes did his green,...youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age ; " and an intercourse began, which if Macaulay's conjecture be true, had a decisive influence upon...

...Oxford he has these lines : — " 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." " It was not till the death of Cromwell,13 in 1658 [Sept. 3], that he became a public candidate for...

...Oxford he has these lines : — " Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-imiversity ; Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age." u It was not till the death of Cromwell,13 in 1658 [Sept. 3], that he became a public candidate for...

...Oxford in the decline of life, though in bis youth he had been an undergraduate of Cambridge : — Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...unknowing youth engage, He chooses ATHENS in his riper age ! WHY do theatrical managers talk of Complimentary admissions? Where's the compliment ? They give orders...