 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits to the owners or the public. As a gentleman- commoner, I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and...expected that 'some questions of literature would be amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits to the owners or the public. As a gentleman-commoner, I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and...fondly expected that some questions of literature would he the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of... | |
 | 1839 - 764 pages
...withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits to the owners or the public. As a gentleman-commoner, I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and...scandal: their dull and deep potations excused the intemperance of youth ; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - Literature - 1840 - 386 pages
...withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits to the owners or the public. As a gentleman-commoner, I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and...conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory polities, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations excused the brisk... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits to the owners or the public. As a gentleman-commoner, I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and...of literature would be the amusing and instructive topies of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory polities,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits to the owners or the public. As a gentleman commoner, I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and...discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round oi college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...withered on the ground, without yielding any fruits to the owners or the public. As a gentleman commoner, I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and...discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round ot college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 pages
...a long slumber. From the toil of reading, thinking, or writing they had absolved their conscience. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...potations excused .the brisk intemperance of youth." Forty years ago the outlines of the picture would have required considerable softening. Deep potations,... | |
 | 1870 - 790 pages
...vindictive fancy, long before the eighteenth century ended. In 1843 their conversation no longer " stagnated " in a round of college business, Tory " politics, personal anecdotes, and pri" vate scandal ;" their knowledge of the world was not confined to the University ; their learning... | |
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Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth... 
