 | English literature - 1897 - 606 pages
...personal stories, and private scandal.' They drank hard, slept long, were still vehement Jacobites ; and ' from the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience.' Every one will remember the sneering parallel or contrast between the monks of Magdalen and the Benedictines... | |
 | Joseph Wells - Universities and colleges - 1897 - 356 pages
...Autobiography, as the " monks of Magdalen," "decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder" ; "from the toil of reading or thinking or writing, they had absolved their conscience." Of course Gibbon was not quite fifteen when he entered the college, and had only been there fourteen... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder. Their days were filled by a series of uniform 30 employments — the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house...ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding any fruit to the owners or the public. The only student was a young fellow (a future bishop) who was deeply... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...gentleman-commoner, he was admitted to the Society of the Fellows of the University ; but he found that "from the toil of reading or thinking or writing they had absolved their consciences ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground, without yielding... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 398 pages
...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...ground, without yielding any fruits to the owners or the public.8 As a gentleman commoner, I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and fondly expected... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 pages
...The fellows of my time were decent easy men, who sapiently enjoyed the gifts of the founder. . . . From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing,...their conscience ; and the first shoots of learning or ingenuity withered in the ground, without yielding any fruits to their owners or the public." Wordsworth,... | |
 | William Francis Barry - Authors, English - 1904 - 286 pages
...by a series of uniform employments, the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common-room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a...writing, they had absolved their conscience; and the first-fruits of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground . . . Their conversation stagnated in... | |
 | England - 1881 - 862 pages
...of uniform employments— the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common-room, till the}' retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, writing, or thinking, they had absolved their consciences ; and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1924 - 862 pages
...their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-nouse and the common room, till they retired, weary and...the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered in the ground, without yielding any fruits to the owners or the public. . . . Their conversation stagnated... | |
 | George Robert Stirling Taylor - Oxford (England) - 1923 - 140 pages
.... The fellows of Magdalen 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 conscience." The position of Oxford to-day is beyond the scope of this little book : but the history of its past... | |
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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 scries of uniform form employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, -weary... 
