 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1876 - 476 pages
...his library to Cambridge, the following epigram appeared : — " King George observing with jndicious eyes The state of both his Universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; for why T That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - 1877 - 284 pages
...happened to be sending a present of books to the sister University. An Oxford epigram was written — The king observing, with judicious eyes, The state...That learned body wanted loyalty ; To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. A Cambridge man replied — The... | |
 | Between whiles - 1877 - 448 pages
...their own company as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. COLTON. Tory Epigram. THE king*, observing with judicious eyes the state...that learned body wanted loyalty. to Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning how much that loyal body wanted learning. A. * George I. Whig Reply. THE... | |
 | English epigrams - 1878 - 464 pages
...CCXLVIII. ON A REGIMENT BEING SENT TO OXFORD, AND A PRESENT OF BOOKS TO CAMBRIDGE, BY GEORGE I. (1715). The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state...That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. Dr. Joseph Trapp (1679-1747).... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1070 pages
...occasion appeared the well known epigram by an unknown hand : King George, observing with jndlclons eyes The state of both his Universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horee, and whyf— That learned body Wanted loyally : To Cambridge books he pent, a* well discerning... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1879 - 668 pages
...it arouses : as in Liv. iv. 3, quod spiratis, quod 1 The English originals are : JACOBITE EPIGRAM. The king, observing with judicious eyes The state...his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse : for why ? That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much... | |
 | John Duke Coleridge Baron Coleridge - 1879 - 292 pages
...disputare nollem. May 1S66. *>**> OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE EPIGRAMS. The King observing with discerning eyes The state of both his Universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse — for why? That learned body wanted loyalty — To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How... | |
 | Charles Churchill, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell - 1880 - 724 pages
...King to the University of Cambridge, on which the follow ing epigram, by an Oxonian, was circulated: The king, observing with judicious eyes, The state...discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. This was thus answered by Sir William Browne: The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1883 - 692 pages
...it arouses : as in Liv. iv. 3, quod sfiratis, quod 1 The English originals are : JACOBITE EPIGRAM. The king, observing with judicious eyes The state...his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse : for why? That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1884 - 854 pages
...of Cambridge and Oxford were respectively Whig and Tory. This is the Tory epigram, by Dr. Trapp : ' The King, observing with judicious eyes The state...why? That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge boohs he sent, aз well discerning How much that loyal Body wanted learning.' To which a Cambridge... | |
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The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. 
