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Common terms and phrases3RD CLERK A. D. Godley ALGAR Amy Robsart Archbishop Banbury Road BECKET Bishops Bodleian BODLEY BRAZEN HEAD BUTCHER Chancellor Christ Church citizens College COMMITTEE Councillor crowd Dragon Ignorance English Enter Exhn eyes fair FAIRFAX Fellow and Tutor FELLOWS OF MAGDALEN follow Folly Bridge FRIAR BACON FRIDES FRIDESWIDE gentlemen Greek Hall hand hath hear heard Heaven HEMINGE HENRY VIII High Street HOUGH JAMES King King's kneel KNIGHT Lady LAURENCE BINYON looks Lord Lord Robert Dudley MACB Macbeth maidens Majesty Master Shakespeare MAYOR MONKS Oxon Pageant PLATE POLO Portr PRAELECTOR pray procession PROCTOR PUDSEY Queen ROBERT BRIDGES ROSAMUND royal scene SCHOLAR Scholastica's Day SECRET OF OXFORD SHAKES sing Sir Thomas Sir Youth Solicitor SPIRIT STANLEY WEYMAN TAILOR tell thee THEOBALD thou truth University VIII AND WOLSEY William of Wykeham WISE STUDENT WITCH Woodstock Road Popular passagesPage 76 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves *e Confound and swallow navigation up ; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders... Page 76 - Though castles topple on their warders' heads; Though palaces and pyramids do slope Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure Of nature's germens tumble all together, Even till destruction sicken— answer me To what I ask you. FIRST WITCH. Speak. SECOND WITCH. Demand. THIRD WITCH. We'll answer. FIRST WITCH. Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters? Page 116 - Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know. Page 13 - AN INVITATION TO THE OXFORD PAGEANT, JULY 1907 FAIR lady of learning, playfellow of spring, Who to thy towery hospice in the vale Invitest all, with queenly claim to bring Scholars from every land within thy pale ; If aught our pageantry may now avail To paint thine antique story to the eye, Inspire the scene, and bid thy herald cry . Welcome to all, and to all comers hail ! Come hither, then he crieth, and hail to all . Bow each his heart a pilgrim at her shrine, Whatever chance hath led you to... Page 78 - Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are : Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. Page 15 - Farewell ! for whether we be young or old, Thou dost remain, but we shall pass away: Time shall against himself thy house uphold, And build thy sanctuary from decay; Children unborn shall be thy pride and stay. May Earth protect thee, and thy sons be true; And God with heavenly food thy life renew, Thy pleasure and thy grace from day to day. Page 116 - While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish; — be it so ! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour... Page 121 - I went to the publick bowling-green, it being the onely recreation I can affect. Coming in, I saw half a score of the finest youths the sun, I think, ever shined upon. They walked to and fro, with their hands in their pockets, to see a match played by some scholars and some gentlemen fam'd for their skill. I gaped also and stared as a man in his way would doe ; but a country ruff gentleman, being like to lose, did swear at such a rate that my heart did grieve that those fine young men should hear... Page 120 - Several who were in front of me, so full was I of old imaginings, I thought might be old friends whom I should recognize. How idle! I strolled to the Isis. It was all glitter and gaiety. The sun shone out warmly and covered the surface of the river with gold. Numerous skiffs of the university-men were alive on the water, realizing the lines, — "Some lightly o'er the current swim, Some show their gaily gilded trim Quick glancing to the sun. Page 14 - flood ' never occurs in the intensive pl., perhaps with the only exception : " The tide of blood in me Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now : Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea, Where it shall mingle with the state of floods And flow henceforth... Bibliographic information
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