A Register of the Presidents, Fellows, Demies, Instructors in Grammar and in Music, Chaplains, Clerks, Choristers, and Other Members of Saint Mary Magdalen College in the University of Oxford, from the Foundation of the College to the Present Time: The demies. v. 1-4; 1482-1857

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Page 40 - any wise notwithstanding, with which we are graciously pleased to dispense in this behalf. And for so doing this shall be your warrant; and so we bid you heartily farewell. Given at our Court at Whitehall the
Page 74 - Ne'er to those chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation came a nobler guest: Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd A fairer spirit or more welcome shade." It is strange that neither his
Page 186 - When he had been Rector of Malpas some time, a handsome pair of silver chalices were found in the Church; and it was afterwards discovered that he was the donor of them. They were inscribed with this verse: All things come of Thee, O Lord; and of Thine own have we given Thee. (1 Chron.
Page 305 - 6d. BREVIATES FROM HOLY SCRIPTURE, arranged for use by the Bed of Sickness. By the Rev. G. ARDEN, MA, Rector of Winterborne-Came ; Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Devon. 2nd Ed. Fcap. 8vo., 2s. DEVOTIONS FOR A TIME OF RETIREMENT AND PRAYER FOR THE CLERGY. New Edition, revised. Fcap. 8vo., cloth,
Page 73 - met the corpse, and led the procession by torch-light, round the shrine of St. Edward and the graves of the Plantagenets, to the Chapel of Henry the Seventh. On the north side of that Chapel, in the vault of the House of Albemarle, the coffin of Addison lies
Page 69 - It is probable that Addison, when he sent across St. George's Channel his first contributions to ' The Tatler,' had no notion of the extent and variety of his own powers. He was the possessor of a vast mine, rich with a hundred ores. But he had been acquainted only with the
Page 208 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind, which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it. The
Page 65 - On his way from Venice to Rome, he was drawn some miles out of the beaten road by a wish to see the smallest independent state in Europe. On a rock where the snow still lay, though the Italian spring was now far advanced, was perched the little Fortress of San Marino.
Page 70 - On the second of January, 1711, appeared the last Tatler. At the beginning of March following appeared the first of an incomparable series of papers, containing observations on life and literature, by an imaginary Spectator. The Spectator himself was conceived and drawn by Addison; and it is not easy to doubt that the portrait was meant to be
Page 72 - vacate his seat in the House of Commons. Rest of mind and body seemed to have re-established his health, and he thanked God with cheerful piety for having set him free both from his office and from his asthma. Many years seemed to be before him, and he meditated many works,—a Tragedy on the Death of

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