 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 - 1891 - 454 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 coffeehouse and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 էջ
...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 coffeehouse and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. (From the toil of reading,... | |
 | Lilian M. Quiller-Couch - 1892 - 462 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,...uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee house and the 1 First published in 1753. 2 One is reminded of dough's 'Mild monastic faces in... | |
 | Oliver Throck Morton - 1892 - 236 էջ
...apostasy. Tutors were listless, and proctorial authority limp. " The fellows of Magdalen," says Gibbon, "were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder. . . . From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences." This... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 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,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 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,...were filled by a series of uniform employments, the Chappel and the Hall, the Coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 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,...were filled by a series of uniform employments, the Chappel and the Hall, the Coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 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,...founder. Their days were filled by a series of uniform 30 employments — the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room — till they retired,... | |
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