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............... 183 SUPERFICIAL KNOWLEDGE .................................................................................................. 188 ENGLISH DICTIONARIES ........................................................................................................ 193 DRYDEN?S HEXASTICH........................................................................................

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................................................................. 188 ENGLISH DICTIONARIES ................................................................. ...rand compound massacre (in another sense, one might have applied to it the Oxford phrase of going out as Grand Compounder), always assumed black silk ... ...en sure of a distant sale, though re- turns would have been slow, viz., at Oxford and Cambridge. We know from Milton that old Hobson delivered his par... ... MSS., on the simple condition of editing them with proper annotations. An Oxford man, and also the celebrated Mr. Christian Curwen, then member for C... ...wen, then member for Cumberland, made, in my hearing, the same report. The Oxford man, in par- ticular, being questioned as to the probable amount of ... ...even; and from Eton, in his eighteenth year, he was sent to Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated as a nobleman. He then bore the courtesy titl... ...s, as leading to a discussion beyond the limits of my own, I omit. ENGLISH DICTIONARIES ENGLISH DICTIONARIES ENGLISH DICTIONARIES ENGLISH DICTIONARIES... ...IES ENGLISH DICTIONARIES ENGLISH DICTIONARIES ENGLISH DICTIONARIES ENGLISH DICTIONARIES IT HAS ALREADY, I believe, been said more than once in print t...

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.......................................................................... 18 OXFORD ....................................................................... ...er that chiefly people our parks. Red deer were also found at Blenheim, in Oxfordshire, when it was visited by Dr. Johnson, as may be seen in “Boswell... ... such additional words as might have been easily mustered from the special dictionaries (Græco-Latin) dedicated separately to the service of the histo... ...his noble foundation secured a number of exhibitions at Brasenose College, Oxford, to those pupils of the school who should study at Manchester for th... ... a bursary. Some years ago the editor of a Glasgow daily paper called upon Oxford and Cambridge, with a patronizing flourish, to imitate some one or m... ... Bath, and thence to Exeter and Plymouth; north-westwards from Lon- don to Oxford, and thence to Chester; eastwards to T unbridge; southwards by east ...

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...oi peri ton Platona], rushed out, eager for the spectacle. The fire was in Oxford Street, at a piano-forte maker’s; and, as it promised to be a confla... ...Consulting Grant’s “Observations on the Bills of Mortality,” (4th edition, Oxford, 1665,) I find, that out of 229,250, who died in London during one p... ...TION. TION. TION. TION. SOME TWENTY or more years before I matriculated at Oxford, Mr. Palmer, M.P . for Bath, had accomplished two things, very hard ... ... total distance. 87 object to an impassioned heart; and naturally, in the Oxford of that day, all hearts were awakened. There were, perhaps, of us go... ...awakened. There were, perhaps, of us gownsmen, two thousand resident 3 in Oxford, and dis- persed through five-and-twenty colleges. In some of these ... ...nary translates that old heathen word by the Christian word breakfast. But dictionaries, one and all, are dull deceivers. Between jentaculum and break... ...ag of pollution on the other. Prandium, so far from being what our foolish dictionaries pretend—dinner itself—never in its palmiest days was more or o...

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...n, and pleased that he should wish to tread in his own steps at Harrow and Oxford, and thus my mother could not openly regret his degeneracy when all ... ...shut, thought the coast was clear, and came in with a load of my books and dictionaries. ‘Clarence,’ said Mr. Castleford, and the direct address made ... ...FUL at Christmas. The Rev. Charles Henderson, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, lately or- dained a deacon, had been recommended to us by our Lon- ... ...ge was requisite for us both; but I suspect it was more in accordance with Oxford habits that he had provided a bottle of sherry and another of ale, s... ...STMAS VACATION was not without another breeze about Griffith’s expenses at Oxford. He held his head high, and declared that people expected something ... ...en Emily and I were out with the donkey, and Griffith, just come home from Oxford, was airing the new acquisition of a handsome black retriever. Close...

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...odd, and attractive; so attractive that the Reverend Mr. Crisp, fresh from Oxford, and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend Mr. Flowerdew, fe... ...ereof startled the sleeping echoes in the street), and taking her way into Oxford Street, sum- moned a coach from a stand there. It is needless to par... ...breeding of Rebecca. Are we to suppose from this curiosity and prying into dictionaries, could our heroine sup- pose that Mr. Crawley was interested i... .... She knew how the unhappy Lord Dovedale, whose mamma had taken a house at Oxford, so that he might be educated there, and who had never touched a car... ...ither of my boys would whop him with one hand. Jim says he’s remembered at Oxford as Miss Crawley still—the spooney. “I say, Barbara,” his reverence c... ...know. He’s only been plucked twice—so was I—but he’s had the advantages of Oxford and a university education. He knows some of the best chaps there. H...

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...odd, and attractive; so attractive that the Reverend Mr. Crisp, fresh from Oxford, and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend Mr. Flowerdew, fe... ...ereof startled the sleeping echoes in the street), and taking her way into Oxford Street, sum- moned a coach from a stand there. It is needless to par... ...breeding of Rebecca. Are we to suppose from this curiosity and prying into dictionaries, could our heroine sup- pose that Mr. Crawley was interested i... .... She knew how the unhappy Lord Dovedale, whose mamma had taken a house at Oxford, so that he might be educated there, and who had never touched a car...

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...SING, THE BODY OF CAPTAIN JOHN BLIFIL. LONDON HAD THE HONOUR OF HIS BIRTH, OXFORD OF HIS EDUCATION. HIS PARTS WERE AN HONOUR TO HIS PROFESSION AND TO ... ...his great theatre of Nature (and no author ought to write anything besides dictionaries and spelling books who hath not this privilege), can censure t... ...e through the school at Taunton, I was thence removed to Exeter College in Oxford, where I remained four years; at the end of which an accident took m... ...itney, where we staid all night, and in our return, the next morn ing, to Oxford, I met one of my cronies, who acquainted me with sufficient news con... ...ith pleasures, she very kindly— betrayed me to one of her former lovers at Oxford, by whose care and diligence I was immediately apprehended and commi... ... “The time of the assizes some came, and I was removed by habeas corpus to Oxford, where I expected certain convic tion and condemnation; but, to my ...

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... cible soul; a true man’s. One remembers always that story of the shoes at Oxford: the rough, seamy-faced, rawboned Col- lege Servitor stalking about,... ..., honesty, insight and successful method, it may be called the best of all Dictionaries. There is in it a kind of architectural nobleness; it stands t...

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...r own upper room, with its books, its papers pressed between the leaves of dictionaries, and the table that could be cleared for work. She re- placed ... ...ng to a photograph. “But I can’t remem- ber where it is—oh, of course it’s Oxford. Now, what about your cottage?” “I’m not going to take it.” “How you... ...ysically and spiritually, from the telephone. She sat in her room with the dictionaries spreading their wide leaves on the table before her, and all t...

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...ks for Briggs, who was always losing them; sometimes he looked up words in dictionaries for other young gentlemen 206 Dombey & Son who were in extrem... ... of leading an altered and blameless existence as a serious greengrocer in Oxford Market. There is sounder sleep and deeper rest in Mr Dombey’ s house...

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...ks for Briggs, who was always losing them; sometimes he looked up words in dictionaries for other young gentlemen 206 Dombey & Son who were in extrem... ... of leading an altered and blameless existence as a serious greengrocer in Oxford Market. There is sounder sleep and deeper rest in Mr Dombey’ s house... ... now resolved to take one an- other for better for worse, and to settle in Oxford Market in the general greengrocery and herb and leech line, where yo...

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...om the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, the Oxford coach, and Lichfield, if the burly figure were withdrawn from them; ... ... for her, from his father, a bible in that character. When he was going to Oxford, she came to take leave of him, brought him, in the simplicity of he... ... but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best q... ...um- stances should think of sending his son to the expensive University of Oxford, at his own charge, seems very improbable. The subject was too delic... ...hire, one of his schoolfellows, spontaneously undertaken to support him at Oxford, in the character of his companion; though, in fact, he never receiv... ...ve to the copyists their several tasks. The words, partly taken from other dictionaries, and partly supplied by him- self, having been first written d... ...ve it I hope to keep, because I hope to continue to deserve it. ‘I have no Dictionaries to dispose of for my- self, but shall be glad to have you dire... ... name of a street in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and tem- porary poems; whence any mean production is called G... ...e any mean production is called Grub-street.’— ‘Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.’ It must undoubtedly seem strange, that th...

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...as the founder of thirteen almshouses, and had endowed two scholarships at Oxford, the object of ambition of the Stoneborough boys, every eighteen mon... ...The Daisy Chain “I know I must do something respectable when first I go to Oxford, if I don’t wish to be known as the man whose brother was plucked,” ... ...for the Randall scholarship next year, but he says it is not good to go to Oxford so young.” “And I believe I had better not be there with Richard,” a... ... sent to him?” Alan Ernescliffe and Norman looked at each other. “Is he at Oxford, or at his tutor’s?” asked Mr. Wilmot. “At Oxford; he was to be ther... ... vacation, and has not even come home to see his new sister, on his way to Oxford. He had made a resolution that he would not come to us till he had p... ...nd expectations, in Ethel’s researches into county histories and classical dictionaries, Flora’s sketching inten- tions, Norman’s promises of campanul...

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...h of a new interest in political questions, had begun to express itself at Oxford, and still more so at Cambridge. Academic persons stationed themselv... ... 1644, when marching from the eastern coast of England to join the king in Oxford; and one such special visitation would be likely to do more serious ... ...y traversed vindictively from without, and harassed by flying parties from Oxford, or others of the 18 Biographical Essays king’s garrisons. Thirdly,... ...explained. Stratford-upon-Avon, lying in the high road from London through Oxford to Birming- ham, (or more generally to the north,) had been continua... ... not- withstanding an inevitable delay, occasioned by the distance of Lord Oxford, his godfather, and the excessive rains, which prevented the earl be... ...here do arise, and men there are, like Joseph Scaliger, who form their own dictionaries and gram- mars in the mere process of reading an unknown langu...

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...e sense that, if one did not write the book, the other did. The Bishops of Oxford and St. David’s, Wilberforce and Thirlwall, are the two pointed at b... ...nley, Bishop of Norwich. The bet- ting, however, is altogether in favor of Oxford. So runs the current of public gossip. But the public is a bad guess... ...y, had been greatly improved by W allis, Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford, the improver of analytic mathematics, and the great historian of al... ...direct interchangeable equivalent in all other languages; and that, if the dictionaries do not show it, that must be because the dictionaries are bad.... ...a prince, was no gentleman; and in the famous case of his dining with Lord Oxford, and saying at his departure, with reference to an infraction of his... ... I thank you for my good cheer, but my attorney must speak with you;’ Lord Oxford might have justly retorted, ‘If he does, then poster- ity will speak...

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...cious information; to Theodore Flournoy, of Geneva, to Canning Schiller of Oxford, and to my colleague Ben- jamin Rand, for documents; to my colleague... ...he V arieties of Religious Experience nius that gets into the biographical dictionaries. Such men do not remain mere critics and understanders with th... ..., in vol. vi. of the American Journal of Psy- chology. This subject was an Oxford graduate, the son of a clergyman, and the story resembles in many po... ... to know. Here it is, some- what abridged:— “Between the period of leaving Oxford and my con- version I never darkened the door of my father’s church,... ...joy the blessing of a truly surrendered life.” So much for our graduate of Oxford, in whom you notice the complete abolition of an ancient appetite as... .... You remember the cases of Alline, Bradley, Brainerd, and the graduate of Oxford converted at three in the afternoon. Similar occur- rences abound, s...

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...n far more usual completion of a public school edu- cation by a sojourn at Oxford or Cambridge may be sus- pected to be different. It may even have ha... ...of publishing by numbers; an art now brought to such perfection, that even dictionaries are divided and exhibited piecemeal to the public; nay, one bo... ...man was a fine scholar, and it was pity he could not afford to keep him at Oxford for four or five years more, by which time, if he could get him a cu...

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...n Lope, in the play the sister and I are just beating through with two bad dictionaries and an insane grammar. I to the hills. – Yours ever, R. L. S. ... ... to which he has led? This is a winking, curled-and-oiled, ultra-cultured, Oxford-don sort of an affectation that infuriates my honest soul. ‘You see’...

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...me such regenerative Social Circle: nay he had tried it, in ‘Newman-street Oxford-street, ’ of the Fog Babylon; and failed,— as some say, surreptitiou... ...r is cruel Jean-Bon silent; a kind of Jesuit he too;—write him not, as the Dictionaries too often do, Jambon, which signifies mere Ham. But, on the wh... ...y a la Captain-Kirk reported of this Cavaignac; which has been copied into Dictionaries of Hommes Marquans, of Biographie Universelle, &c.; which not ...