...Rugby and at Oxford — Oxford,' which, in his life-long submission to her charm, he characterized as "so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!" Most of his life was spent as an inspector of schools, much of it in the patient drudgery of reading...

...unpopular names, and impossible loyalties." "Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so uuravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so...yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who...

...root of a genuine enthusiasm. We must be able to reach Browning's "All's love, yet all's law." OXFORD. "Steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her garments...moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling...

...as ' the home of lost causes,' though Jude did not remember this) was now apostrophizing her thus : 'Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! . . . Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection.'...

...' the home of lost causes,' though Jude did not remember this) was now apostrophizing her thus : ' Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so seiene ! . . . Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal,...

...interlude of direct apostrophe beginning, "Adorable dreamer!" But I really must show this fine passage : "Beautiful city ! sO venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who...

...often make mistakes, and I wish mine to redound to my own discredit only, and not to touch Oxford. Beautiful City! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who...

...William Wordsworth. Oxford *c* <c* *s* <^ *c,. *s* (From Preface to Essays in Criticism) T) EAUTIFUL city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the...yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who...

...not to give us an image of Oxford; it is to explain to us the influence of Oxford through the ages. Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who...

...often make mistakes, and I wish mine to redound to my own discredit only, and not to touch Oxford. Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...serene! "There are our young barbarians, all at play!" 1 From the Preface to Essays in Criticism (1865). And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...