Memories of MertonHigginbotham, 1865 - 355 páginas |
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... the calm of academic life : - Lo ! slowly rise , at Fancy's wizard call , Thy gardens , Merton , and monastic hall ; Thy walks , groves , shades , and visionary towers ! The Gate - Way . " Ad ogni uccello suo ι I. ...
... the calm of academic life : - Lo ! slowly rise , at Fancy's wizard call , Thy gardens , Merton , and monastic hall ; Thy walks , groves , shades , and visionary towers ! The Gate - Way . " Ad ogni uccello suo ι I. ...
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... rise Highest on Lebanon : what hath refined , Best govern'd , or made wealthiest mankind ; And every sister Art which beautifies Our social life , or any want supplies . The University Commission . " For not to know at 12 XI .
... rise Highest on Lebanon : what hath refined , Best govern'd , or made wealthiest mankind ; And every sister Art which beautifies Our social life , or any want supplies . The University Commission . " For not to know at 12 XI .
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... rise , Step after step , to heights of loftier scan ; * Who scorned the wisdom of the ancient wise ; Tried Truth by practice ; humbly looked on Man As Nature's servant and interpreter . * Neque enim iu plano via sita est , sed ...
... rise , Step after step , to heights of loftier scan ; * Who scorned the wisdom of the ancient wise ; Tried Truth by practice ; humbly looked on Man As Nature's servant and interpreter . * Neque enim iu plano via sita est , sed ...
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... rise not to speak among Thy co - mates spurn the incense of the young : Spin not from hollow base sophistic plea , Like to the worm , that from a rotten tree In empty air its fragile thread hath flung . " Let Knowledge ' sure ...
... rise not to speak among Thy co - mates spurn the incense of the young : Spin not from hollow base sophistic plea , Like to the worm , that from a rotten tree In empty air its fragile thread hath flung . " Let Knowledge ' sure ...
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... rise , Not like the forum - lawyer , Belial - wise , To twist the worse the better form to take ; Nor for a momentary triumph's sake Seek by sarcastic jest the short surprise ; Nor think thine adversary always lies ; Nor harp for ever ...
... rise , Not like the forum - lawyer , Belial - wise , To twist the worse the better form to take ; Nor for a momentary triumph's sake Seek by sarcastic jest the short surprise ; Nor think thine adversary always lies ; Nor harp for ever ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy Aristotle atque beauty bird bright chap Christianity Cicero crown dark death doth dream earth Epictetus eternal EURIPIDES eyes flowers Garden glory gold golden grave Hæc hand happy hath heart Heaven HESIOD honour king labour Life's light live Lord man's Merton mihi mind Nature ne'er never night Note o'er Ocean OVID philosophy Plato Poet pride quæ quam quatrain quid quod rhymes rich round says sleep Sonnet soul spirit stars Stoics sweet tercets thee Theocritus thine things thou thought toil truth unto voice Walter de Merton wave wisdom youth ἀλλ ἀλλὰ ἂν γὰρ δὲ εἰ εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐξ ἐπὶ ἐς ἔστιν καὶ μὲν μὴ μοι νῦν οὐ οὐδὲ οὐκ πάντα πρὸς τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοι τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τῶν ὡς
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Página 211 - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Página 53 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Página 185 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Página 152 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Página 183 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Página 76 - The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow ; She draws her favours to the lowest ebb : Her tides have equal times to come and go ; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web : No joy so great but runneth to an end, No hap so hard but may in fine amend.
Página 38 - And the Publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other : for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased : and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Página 69 - There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.