...only mentions Cambridge as the contrast of the sister university 'in point of taste and learning : " Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age."* A preference so uncommon, in one who had studied at Cambridge, probably originated in some cause of...

...religion, loves your arts and yon, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university. Thebes '[ did his green, unknowing, youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age. * Alluding to the Roman citizens, who had the right of voting, denied to the lower, or provincial orders....

...religion, loves your arts and you, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university. Thebes')- did his green, unknowing, youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age. * Alluding to the Roman citizens, who had the right of voting, denied to the lower, or provincial orders....

...loves your arts and you, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university. Thebes t did his green, unknowing, youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age. * Alluding to the Roman citizens, who had the right of voting, denied to the lower, or provincial orders....

...* The passage reminds us of a similar expression in Dry den's prologue to the university of Oxford. Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother university; Tin-lies did his green unknowing youth engage, He choses Athens in bis riper age. Tripos of Jones)....

...only mentions Cambridge as the contrast of the sister university in point of taste and learning : " Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age."* A preference so uncommon, in one who had studied at Cambridge, probably originated in those slight...

...loves your arts and you, Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university. Thebes f did his green, unknowing, youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age. * Alluding to the Roman citizens, who had the right of voting, denied to the lower, or provincial orders....

...religion, loves your arts and you; Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university. Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age. TO THE DISAPPOINTMENT: OR, THE MOTHER IN FASHION. BY SOUTHERN. 1684. SPOKEN BY MR. BETTERTON. How comes...

...* The passage reminds us of a similar expression in Dryden's prologue to the University of Oxford. Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age. Both poets had received some censure from their Alma Mater. t Vol. XV. p. 252. $ These verses were...

...only mentions Cambridge as the contrast of the sister university in point of taste and learning : « Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own...youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age. »3 A preference so uncommon, in one who had studied at Cambridge, probably originated in those slight...