 The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a series of -uniform employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Էջ 2341881Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 էջ
...the "monks of Magdalen" were so graphically, and we doubt not so correctly, described by Gibbon. " Decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of...the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 էջ
...other colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, a silent blush, or a scornful frown, will be the only reply. The fellows or monks of- my time were decent easy...the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. As a gentleman-commoner,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 էջ
...other colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, a silent blush or a scornful frown will be the only reply. The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men,...the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1070 էջ
...other colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, a ailent blush, or a scornful frown, will be the only reply. a! common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | 1878 - 1074 էջ
...other colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, a silent blush, or a scornful frown, will be the only reply. The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men,...the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 էջ
...easy men — into whose common-room he was, as a gentleman-commoner, of right admitted ; their days filled by a series of uniform employments — the...retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber ; their conversation that stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 376 էջ
...easy men — into whose common-room he was, as a gentleman-commoner, of right admitted ; their days filled by a series of uniform employments — the...retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber ; their conversation that stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes,... | |
 | William Ince - 1878 - 20 էջ
...the Oxford of his day. "The Fellows were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of their founder: their days were filled by a series of uniform...coffee-house and the common-room, till they retired, wearied and well -satisfied, to a long slumber. As a gentleman commoner, I fondly expected that some... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1878 - 216 էջ
...mention lawsuits as a favourite pastime of the Fellows. " The Fellows or monks of my time/' he says, " were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts...founder : their days were filled by a series of uniform employments—the chapel, the hall, the coffee-house, and the common room—till they retired weary... | |
 | 1883 - 836 էջ
...mention lawsuits as a favourite pastime of the Fellows. " The Fellows or monks of my time," he says, " were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts...by a series of uniform employments — the chapel, the hall, the coffee-house, and the common room — till they retired weary and well satisfied to a... | |
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