 | Ellen Thompson - 1909 - 238 pages
...city! So venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! And yet steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal... | |
 | Ellen Thompson - 1909 - 230 pages
...gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm...ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side ?... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1909 - 306 pages
...venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! . . . And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantment of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast, Percy Van Dyke Shelly - 1910 - 564 pages
...spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from Cricket Green and College Towers, Winchester her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age,...ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?... | |
 | University of North Dakota - 1914 - 430 pages
...city! So venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, or whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford by... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1911 - 304 pages
...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! ' There are our young barbarians, all at play ! ' And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?... | |
 | 1911 - 514 pages
...university! How idiotic would a man be to say of Yale, even if he could, as did Arnold of Oxford : "And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 pages
...the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! There are our young barbarians, all at play! And yet steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to t ^ lG ^ K . us, to the ideal, to perfection,_to beauty, in * *°r<J, *°£afall of truth seen from... | |
 | Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton - 1911 - 374 pages
...victorious rival of the message of science, breathes no spirit of rivalry but a glorious welcome :— . . . steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens...Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection,— to beauty, in a word, which is... | |
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And 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 will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal... 
