Nuts to crack: or, Quips, quirks, anecdote, and facete, of Oxford and Cambridge scholars, by the author of 'Facetiæ Cantabrigienses'.A.H. Baily & Company, 1834 - 280 strani |
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Stran 207 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what his word did make it, That I believe, and take it." Scarcely less ingenious was the reply of Bishop
Stran 139 - and cannot afford it. I have had no sleep during the whole night on account of these reflections, and am now come solemnly to inform you, that, if you persist in your indolence, I must renounce your society.' I was so struck (continued Paley) with the visit and the visiter, that I lay in bed
Stran 121 - Matthews solaced himself with shouting under Hiron's window every evening— " Ah me ! ,what perils do environ The man who meddles with hot Hiron ! " He was also of that BAND OF PROFANE SCOFFERS who, under the auspices of , used to rouse Lort Mansel (late Bishop of Bristol) from his slumbers in the Lodge of Trinity
Stran 17 - sword by his side, when he came to take his leave of him to go to the Inns of Court." This was done to make him a smart fellow. " In Sir John Fane's collection of letters of the Paston family, written temp. Henry VI.,
Stran 140 - with the visit and the visiter, that I lay in bed great part of the day and formed my plan: I ordered my bed-maker to prepare my fire every evening, in order that it might be lighted by myself; I rose at five, read during the whole of the day, except such hours as chapel and hall required, allotting
Stran 140 - each portion of time its peculiar branch of study ; and, just before the closing of gates (nine o'clock) I went to a neighbouring coffee-house, where I constantly regaled upon a mutton-chop and a dose of milk punch: and thus on taking my bachelor's degree, I became senior wrangler.
Stran 108 - Let us dabble, dive, and duck in a bowl. Oh ! by the blood of King Edward, Oh! by the blood of King Edward, It was a swapping, swapping MALLARD. But whoever would possess themselves of the true
Stran 194 - In a room where Cambridge town Frowns o'er the kennel's stinking flood, Rob'd in a flannel powd'ring gown, With haggard eyes poor Erskine stood ; (Long his beard and blouzy hair Stream'd like an old wig to the troubled air;) And with clung guts, and face than razor thinner, Swore the loud sorrows of his dinner. Hark
Stran 64 - was his fault), and that, at the end of the fortnight, he read a confession of his crime in the Hall at the dinner-time, at the three fellows' table." ,. ,• •> ,,• His contemporary," Dennis the Critic, seems to have
Stran 152 - in Oxon, which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own. But the electors of Trinity having a preference of choice that year, they resolutely elected him ; who yet, being invited the same time to