 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 էջ
...other colleges of Oxford and Cambridge,2 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,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 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,...employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffeehouse and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | Francis Henry Gribble - 1910 - 380 էջ
...it must nevertheless be quoted : " The fellows, or monks, of my time " (says Gibbon) " were decent men who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder...retired, weary and well -satisfied, to a long slumber. . . . Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes,... | |
 | 1911 - 492 էջ
...the other colleges of Oxford or 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. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 էջ
...public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. . . . 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. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 էջ
...public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. . . . 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. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 էջ
...public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. . . . 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. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | Francis Henry Gribble - 1911 - 368 էջ
...it must nevertheless be quoted : " The fellows, or monks, of my time " (says Gibbon) -' were decent men who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder...and the common-room, till they retired, weary and well-satisfied, to a long slumber. . . . Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 էջ
...many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. . . . The fellows or monks of my tune were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts...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,... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1924 - 862 էջ
...in its history had Oxford reached such a depth of degeneracy. 'The fellows of my time,' says Gibbon, 'were decent easy men who supinely enjoyed the gifts...uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-nouse and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From... | |
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