By J. J. Smith (editor)

The collage of Cambridge has regularly encouraged artists and writers, and those luxurious volumes from 1840 painting a few of its most vital old constructions, associations and folks. each one quantity incorporates a choice of essays, anecdotes, poems and recollections at the faculties, museums, gardens, streets and personality of town, in addition to historic essays at the Boat Race and collage educating. the numerous illustrations of significant points of interest and critical perspectives, resembling the Backs, the river Cam and Grantchester meadows, comprise works by way of or after numerous recognized artists, engraver Charles George Lewis and panorama painter John Murray Ince between them. With participants drawn from many of the faculties, the volumes comprise a lot attention-grabbing fabric at the background and customs of the collage as much as 1840. This miscellany is a perfect reward or collector's merchandise for all these attracted to the collage of Cambridge.

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With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent; For Whigs admit no force but argument. 41 SOURCES OF HISTORY. II. COLLEGE HISTOEIES. Ulius quidem (Collegii) suadet amor, ut qusecunque de eo apud antiquos scriptores sive editos sive ineditos, in quibus curiose magis quam utiliter versari soleo, dicta sparsim jacent, quasi relliquias quasdam in unum acervum congererem, ne aut charissimum (Collegium) memoria indignum, aut ego illius immemor esse videar. Old Manuscript. are four instances of a complete history of a * private College/ at least complete as far as they go; for the want of that wide historical research and patient authorship so rarely practised at the present day, has left a void to be filled up.

These ceremonies continued much longer, and many congees were made, and many soft and savoury things said no doubt, but I became weary and faint and so took my leave. Sir Henry called at my lodgings at four of the clock, and took me perforce to Sidney College, where I found a truly sumptuous entertainment laid out in the gardens, well graced by all the flower and fragrance of the Universitie guests. I would fain have lingered still therein and beguiled the time in sweet converse, or in watching the sprightly dance, or listening to the floating sounds of music, or wandering about the illuminated alleys and lawns—for Aristaeus was not more recreated with his view of the crystal palaces and liquid groves of Ocean; indeed it is a pretty garden, favoured by earth and heaven—but forsooth there was no time for such intellectual oblectations, seeing that I was hurried away by my trusty friend to spend the rest of the evening in a right joyful and jovial manner at Jesus College.

Your affairs from hedging from the direct forthright. Gramercy, was it not care that killed a cat? Remember ye that excellent saying, Malo virum qui pecunia egeat, quam pecuniam quse viro. Well, well, a truce, my good Peter; but I would fain that you and I had been dubbed scholars of this lordly Academus; I ween we should have been better clerks than we now are: yea the very air is scented with the fragrance of learning; and whether those fair damsels the Muses love to take their pastime in the shady grove, or besport themselves on the margin green, or sweep in stately robes through antique cloisters, or revel in princely halls, or meditate in secret chambers; indeed, saving only their Parnassian heights (which, foreby they are now waxing of a certain age, they may deftly do without), they have all the abundance of their inclination here gratified to the full.

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