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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. "
The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 160
by Alexander Chalmers - 1813
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The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, and of ..., Volume 3

Robert Willis - 1886 - 760 pages
...Life of Bentley, i. 375 — 378. It was on this occasion that the epigram was written : " King George observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning, How much that loyal body wanted learning." Sir William Browne, founder...
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The Church in England from William III, to Victoria, Volume 1

Alexander Hugh Hore - 1886 - 538 pages
...they received, gave rise to the following squibs. The first is by an Oxford man : — " King George, observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning." The rejoinder, which was scarcely...
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Cambridge: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes

John Willis Clark - 1890 - 352 pages
...situation, and when the library was sent to Cambridge the following epigram appeared : "King George, observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning." Cambridge was not slow in publishing...
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Literary Fragments

George Charles Brodrick - 1891 - 592 pages
...Cambridge in lines which, together with the Cambridge repartee, have become historical. King George, observing with judicious 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...
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The Southern Empire

Oliver Throck Morton - 1892 - 236 pages
...the same time he gave a splendid library to Cambridge. This evoked the following Oxford verse : — " 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 graduate thereupon...
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An Academic Sketch

William Ewart Gladstone - 1892 - 60 pages
...Hereupon Dr. Trapp produced his capital epigram— ' The King, regarding with impartial eyes The wants of both his Universities, To Oxford sent a troop of...That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning That that right loyal body wanted learning. He was met by the even better...
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Dated Book-plates (Ex Libris) with a Treatise on Their Origin and ..., Volume 2

Walter Hamilton - 1895 - 494 pages
...Oxford, and Sir William Browne, founder of the pri2es for odes and epigrams at Cambridge : " King George observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning." The Reply : " The King to Oxford...
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Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 1

George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pages
...following versions are given : — I. 'The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of his two universities ; To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and...discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.' II. ' The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill...
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Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 1

George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...following versions are given : — 1. ' The King. observing with judicious eyes, The state of his two universities ; To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and...discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.' 11. ' The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill...
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Oxford and Its Colleges

Joseph Wells - 1897 - 356 pages
...man, Trapp,* the Professor of Poetry, who wrote the famous epigram on the two Universities : — " 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." To this period of its history...
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