 I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and fondly expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes,...  The Dublin Review - Page 119edited by - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...expected that 'some questions of literature would be amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth. The e*amj>le of the senior fellows could not inspire the under-graduates with a liberal spirit or stu.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth ; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth : and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance of yot^h; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty for the house... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth : and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover.... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...expected that some questions of literature would he the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth: and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potation* excused the bri§k intempérant of youth ; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth ; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth : and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover.... | |
 | 1839 - 764 pages
...expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college...scandal: their dull and deep potations excused the intemperance of youth ; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty... | |
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