 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...following versions are given : — 1. ' The King. observing with judicious eyes, The state of his two universities ; To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and...discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.' 11. ' The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill... | |
 | John William Edward Conybeare - Cambridge (England) - 1897 - 344 pages
...difference in treatment which called forth from an Oxford wit the following quatrain : " King George, observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...That Learned Body wanted Loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, — as well discerning How much that Loyal Body wanted Learning." The Cantab reply, composed... | |
 | Joseph Wells - Oxford (England) - 1898 - 262 pages
...inspired the only lines of Trapp now remembered, the famous epigram against Cambridge : — " King George observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning."t But Trapp was in his day a... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - Oxford (England) - 1901 - 496 pages
...England ! The wits of Orford met this affront with an epigram worthy of a better origin — King George, observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. The authorship of this is, we... | |
 | John Richard Green, Kate Norgate - Oxford (England) - 1901 - 344 pages
...England! The wits of Oxford met this affront with an epigram worthy of a better origin— King George, observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. The authorship of this is, we... | |
 | W. Thomas - 1901 - 690 pages
...propositions soumises au Parlement et portant atteinte aiix privilèges de l'Université. 1. « King George observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...Universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse, and why? That learued body wanted loyal ty. To Cambridge books lie sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body... | |
 | W. Thomas - 1901 - 688 pages
...propositions soumises au Parlement et portant atteinte aux privilèges de l'Université. 1. v King Cicorge observing with judicious eyes The state of both his...Universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse, and ivhy? That learued body wanted loyal ty. To Cambridge bnoks lie sent, as well discerning How much that... | |
 | Joseph Wells - 1903 - 358 pages
...who wrote the famous epigram on the two Universities : — " The King, observing with judicious eye* The state of both his Universities, To Oxford sent...That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning, How much that loyal body wanted learning." To this period belongs the... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Historic buildings - 1904 - 518 pages
...when George I. gave his library to Cambridge, the following epigram appeared : — * " King George observing with judicious eyes The state of both his Universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; for why ? That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much... | |
 | Edmund Pyle - 1905 - 472 pages
...answer to the epigram on the presentation by George I. of Dr. Moore's library to Cambridge : — " The King observing with judicious eyes, The state...That learned body wanted loyalty ; To Cambridge books he sent as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning." —Dr. JOSEPH TRAPP, 1679-1747.... | |
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The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. 
