item: #1 of 5 id: 11483 author: Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson title: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) date: None words: 97571 flesch: 75 summary: But with little _boys_ And the hot dry air, that you breathe when you rush to the fire, is the praise that one gets from one's young, happy, rosy, I may even say _florid_ friends! keywords: 4to; 8vo; able; accepted; account; acquaintance; acting; addition; adventures; advice; affectionate; afternoon; age; aged; alice; amusing; anecdotes; animals; answer; appearance; april; archbishop; archdeacon; argument; arthur; article; artist; artistic; attempt; attention; audience; august; author; away; axiom; bad; balbus; baxter; beach; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; belfry; best; bishop; bit; black; blocks; body; book; boots; bowman; boy; boys; branch; bright; bringing; brother; bruno; c.l; called; capable; care; carroll; case; certain; change; chapel; chapter; character; characteristic; charles; charming; chief; childhood; children; christ; christian; christmas; church; circle; circular; circumstances; clear; clever; close; cloth; coat; 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sketch; small; smile; snark; society; sorrow; sorry; sort; soul; speaking; special; spirit; square; stage; station; stay; stories; story; strange; strong; students; study; style; subject; success; successful; sufficient; summer; sunday; sure; surprise; sweet; sylvie; sympathy; system; tait; taking; tale; talk; tea; tenniel; tennyson; terms; terry; text; thanks; theatre; thee; theory; thick; thing; thinking; thomson; thought; thy; time; tired; town; train; trouble; true; truth; try; turn; undergraduates; university; useful; usual; vacation; value; verses; view; village; visit; vivisection; votes; walk; walking; wall; want; way; weary; week; white; wide; wife; william; willing; wilson; wine; wish; wonderful; wonderland; words; work; working; world; worth; writer; writing; wrong; years; yesterday; young; youth cache: 11483.txt plain text: 11483.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 13501 author: Ward, Humphry, Mrs. title: Lady Connie date: None words: 117427 flesch: 85 summary: And that, if you please, is Mr. Douglas Falloden! I wonder why you are so angry with him, my dear Sarah, said Miss Wenlock mildly. Wonder what they'll give me for that, he Said quietly, pointing to it. keywords: absurd; accident; account; acquaintance; affairs; afraid; afternoon; alice; amused; angry; annette; answer; anxious; arms; arrival; arthur; aside; astonishment; attack; attention; aunt; autumn; aware; bad; ball; ballroom; bank; beaumont; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; bent; best; better; bit; black; bledlow; blue; boat; books; boy; brain; breath; bright; brilliant; broken; brother; brown; business; busy; bye; cannes; care; career; carriage; case; castle; certain; chancellor; change; chapter; character; charming; cheeks; child; children; chin; chopin; christ; church; city; class; clear; clever; closed; clothes; clouds; college; colour; comfort; coming; common; companion; company; connie; conscience; conscious; consciousness; conspicuous; constance; constance bledlow; conversation; cottage; countenance; country; couple; course; cousin; creature; crowded; cry; cut; dance; dancing; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; decent; deep; delicate; delight; determined; different; difficult; dinner; distance; distant; distress; doctors; dons; door; doubt; douglas; douglas falloden; drawing; dream; dress; dresses; dressing; duggy; dying; eager; earlier; early; earth; edge; effect; effort; eights; ella; ellen; energy; england; english; evening; evident; ewen; excited; excitement; expression; eyed; eyes; face; fact; fair; falloden; family; famous; far; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fellowship; figure; find; fine; fire; fit; flood; flowers; flushed; following; fond; fool; foot; foreign; forgotten; form; fortnight; forward; free; french; fresh; friends; frowning; garden; gate; general; gift; girl; glad; glaramara; glorious; god; golden; good; gown; grass; great; greek; grey; group; guardian; guests; hair; haired; half; hall; hand; handsome; happy; hard; hat; head; health; heart; help; herbert; herr; high; hill; history; hold; home; hooper; hope; horrid; horses; hot; hour; house; household; human; hurried; husband; important; impulse; injured; instance; interest; italian; jolly; joy; kind; knee; ladies; lady; lady connie; lady constance; langmoor; large; late; lathom; laughing; laura; leave; left; letters; library; life; like; line; lips; little; lives; living; london; long; look; looking; lord; lost; lot; love; lunch; magdalen; maid; making; mamma; man; manner; marcia; mare; marmion; married; master; mean; meeting; men; mere; meyrick; middle; miklos; miles; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; months; moor; morning; morrow; mother; movement; mrs; mulholland; music; musical; natural; near; neck; need; new; newcomer; news; nice; night; nora; note; notice; o'clock; odd; offer; old; older; open; opening; opinion; opposite; orpheus; otto; outside; oxford; pain; pair; pale; paper; parents; paris; park; parliament; particular; parties; party; passion; passionate; past; path; paused; pay; people; person; physical; piano; pictures; pity; place; play; playing; pleased; pleasure; pocket; pointed; poland; polish; poor; position; possession; possible; post; power; presence; present; pretty; private; promise; proud; pryce; public; quadrangle; queer; question; quick; quiet; radowitz; reader; reading; ready; real; red; relations; reply; rest; return; rich; ride; riding; risborough; river; riviera; road; robertson; rome; room; rose; round; run; running; saw; scarfedale; scene; schoolroom; schools; schwarz; scout; second; self; sense; servants; set; seventeen; sharp; short; shoulders; shy; signs; silence; silent; silly; silver; sir; sister; sitting; situation; sky; sleep; slight; small; smile; society; soft; son; songs; sorell; sorry; soul; spirit; spite; splendid; spoilt; spring; stand; stay; step; stop; straight; strange; stream; street; strong; student; study; subject; success; sudden; summer; sun; sweet; sympathy; table; talk; tall; tea; tell; thank; thick; things; thinking; thought; throw; time; tired; tone; touch; town; tragedy; trees; trix; trouble; true; turn; tutor; uncle; undergraduates; university; usual; valley; vision; visit; voice; walk; walls; want; warm; watch; water; way; ways; week; wenlock; white; wide; wife; wild; window; winifred; winter; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; worn; worse; worth; writing; years; young; younger; youth cache: 13501.txt plain text: 13501.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 34525 author: Hogg, Thomas Jefferson title: Shelley at Oxford date: None words: 40942 flesch: 55 summary: Hogg, in fact, tacitly admitted the value of Bulwer's emendations by reprinting the articles in question in his biography of Shelley word for word as they appeared in the _New Monthly Magazine_, not in the form in which they originally left his pen. Never did a more finished gentleman than Shelley step across a drawing-room! keywords: able; academical; account; accustomed; acquaintance; active; actual; admiration; advanced; advancement; age; air; ancient; animated; animation; answer; appearance; ardent; ardour; argument; aristotle; art; aspect; attention; author; beautiful; beauty; best; better; black; body; book; bore; boy; bread; brief; career; cause; certain; chapter; character; chemistry; children; city; close; coat; cold; college; command; common; complete; conversation; country; course; cruel; curious; day; days; debate; deep; degree; delight; delighted; deportment; desire; devotion; difficult; dinner; disappointment; discourse; discoveries; discussion; disposition; distance; distinguished; door; doubt; dull; early; easy; effect; end; energies; enthusiasm; enthusiastic; entire; evening; excellence; existence; expression; extraordinary; extreme; eye; eyes; face; familiar; family; fancy; father; favourite; fellow; fields; fine; finished; fire; fondness; foot; force; form; free; frequent; friend; garden; general; generous; genius; girl; glowing; good; great; greatest; greek; hand; harmless; head; heat; high; hogg; hope; hour; house; human; hume; imagination; impatience; important; impossible; incapable; individual; infinite; injustice; innumerable; inquiries; intellectual; intense; interest; kind; knowledge; language; large; late; latin; learning; left; letters; liberal; liberty; life; like; little; london; long; love; man; manner; marvellous; master; mean; memory; men; mighty; mind; minute; modern; moment; moral; morning; mother; mysterious; narrow; natural; nature; necessary; new; noble; number; numerous; oak; object; old; open; order; ordinary; original; oxford; pages; paper; peculiar; people; perfect; period; persons; philosophical; philosophy; pistols; place; plato; pleasure; poet; political; politics; popular; portion; power; practice; present; prodigious; profound; proofs; public; purpose; pursuit; qualities; questions; quiet; reading; reason; recollection; regard; remarkable; residence; respect; return; right; road; rooms; round; rude; sacred; scanty; scholar; school; science; scout; seat; second; sense; set; shelley; short; silence; silent; simple; single; singular; skirts; slight; small; society; solemn; soul; speak; spirit; spot; state; stones; strange; street; strength; striking; strong; student; studies; study; subject; success; supper; supply; surprise; sweet; sympathy; taking; talent; taste; tea; term; theory; things; thought; time; trifling; true; truth; unable; university; unusual; usual; utmost; vain; valuable; value; vast; vehemence; venerable; verses; violence; visit; voice; volume; vulgar; walk; want; warm; water; way; whimsical; wild; wonder; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; years; young; youth; youthful; zeal cache: 34525.txt plain text: 34525.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 45290 author: Peel, Robert title: Oxford date: None words: 19543 flesch: 66 summary: no name captivates our sympathies more readily than that of Richard Steele, trooper and essayist, the friend of Addison and the husband of Prue. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE |IT was long and hotly maintained that University College was founded by Alfred the Great, and by celebrating its thousandth anniversary in 1872 the College would seem to have accepted this pious opinion. University College owes its existence to William of Durham, who, at his death in 1249, beqeathed to the University the sum of three hundred and ten marks for the use of ten or more _Masters_ (at that time the highest academical title) to be natives of Durham or its vicinity. keywords: age; ancient; appearance; archbishop; architecture; author; background; balliol; beautiful; beauty; best; bishop; book; brasenose; broad; buildings; castle; cathedral; centre; century; certain; chapel; charles; christ; church; city; collection; college; corpus; court; d'oily; date; days; dean; death; drawing; duke; durham; early; east; education; edward; eighteenth; elizabeth; end; england; entrance; exeter; existence; fact; fair; famous; fellows; fine; foundation; founder; frideswyde; garden; gateway; gloucester; good; gothic; gown; great; greater; half; hall; hand; head; henry; hertford; high; history; house; humphrey; idea; illustration; inner; interest; interesting; interior; italian; james; john; keble; king; known; lady; later; latin; laud; learning; left; library; life; like; lincoln; little; long; lord; magdalen; man; mary; master; matthison; meadow; members; men; merton; moment; new; new college; nineteenth; norman; north; old; older; oldest; open; oriel; original; oxford; picture; place; pleasant; poet; portraits; present; president; principal; public; quadrangle; queen; radcliffe; rate; religious; remains; richard; right; river; robert; room; scholars; schools; second; second illustration; seventeenth; shews; sir; site; souls; spire; statues; stone; street; structure; students; style; term; thomas; thought; time; title; tower; town; tradition; undergraduate; university; university college; upper; view; viii; wadham; walk; walls; walter; way; waynflete; west; white; wide; william; winchester; windows; wolsey; wood; work; wren; wykeham; years; youth cache: 45290.txt plain text: 45290.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 46274 author: Headlam, Cecil title: Oxford and Its Story date: None words: 122439 flesch: 64 summary: The position of the students with regard to the country, is indicated by the old rhyme: Mark the Chronicles aright When Oxford scholars fall to fight Before many months expired England will with war be fired. INDEX Abelard, Peter, 68 Abingdon, village of, 23; toll of herrings paid to monastery of, 27 Act of Supremacy, 268 Addison, Joseph, demy at Magdalen, 349 Æthelred, the Unready, building of S. Frideswide by, 9-11 Agnellus of Pisa, builder of first school of Grey Friars, 99, 100 Alfred, King, claim of, as founder of University, 64, 65; relics of, 87, 88 Allen, Dr Thomas, astrologer, 102 Arthur, Prince, son of Henry VII., at Oxford, 235 Bacon, Roger, 100-102 Balliol, Sir John de, founder of Balliol Hall, 127, 128; intended work of, carried out by widow, 127, 128 Bancroft, Archbishop, Chancellor, prohibition by, of long hair, and other reforms instituted by, 306 Barbers, regulations concerning, 57, 58 Barnes, Joseph, new press at Oxford set up by, 243 Barons, struggle of, with King, and effect of at University, 208 _seq._ Basset, Alan, first endowment for Oxford scholar provided by, 81 Beaumont, palace at, built by Henry Beauclerk, 54; site of, 54; grant of, to Carmelite Friars, 103, 104 _Bedford Hall_, or Charleton's Inn, purchased for site of All Souls', 225 Bells, famous Osney, 49 Bible, Authorised Version, 307 ---- keywords: _facing; abbey; abbot; abingdon; academical; accession; 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