The Oxford high school magazine |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 39
Page 3
... morning- though in the body I am far away . First , for the words of Counsel . Let me entreat you , as I have ever done , to bear in constant mind the necessity that is laid upon you - you the earliest pupils of our young school - to ...
... morning- though in the body I am far away . First , for the words of Counsel . Let me entreat you , as I have ever done , to bear in constant mind the necessity that is laid upon you - you the earliest pupils of our young school - to ...
Page 30
... morning once again 6 Duty will come this way . ' But it were best it seemed to me To follow him that day . On , on , we went down the cloisters , The way was dark and cold , There was Duty's voice to cheer us , High above all it rolled ...
... morning once again 6 Duty will come this way . ' But it were best it seemed to me To follow him that day . On , on , we went down the cloisters , The way was dark and cold , There was Duty's voice to cheer us , High above all it rolled ...
Page 35
... morning there was a thaw . The ice , snow , and water had become one , Melted and joined by the glorious sun . All rushed onward to the river , And they will be one for always and ever . Carried along in the river's train , Ice and snow ...
... morning there was a thaw . The ice , snow , and water had become one , Melted and joined by the glorious sun . All rushed onward to the river , And they will be one for always and ever . Carried along in the river's train , Ice and snow ...
Page 44
... morning , We saw how lowering looked the Eastern light ; Why laughed they so , and set at nought our warning ? We knew the tempest that would break ere night . Too late , too late ! how cold it is and dreary ! Where is the lighthouse ...
... morning , We saw how lowering looked the Eastern light ; Why laughed they so , and set at nought our warning ? We knew the tempest that would break ere night . Too late , too late ! how cold it is and dreary ! Where is the lighthouse ...
Page 55
... morning , noon and night ; I was always with him , he did not care to leave me for any amusement , and when he slept I lay near him ; I grew weary sometimes of the never - ceasing exercises and scales , and longed for something better ...
... morning , noon and night ; I was always with him , he did not care to leave me for any amusement , and when he slept I lay near him ; I grew weary sometimes of the never - ceasing exercises and scales , and longed for something better ...
Common terms and phrases
Alison Arnold beautiful Bonner brother called Cecil Choragus Christie church Cicely Clément Marot cried Croesus dark dear death delight drama earth Edina Editing Committee Egmont England English essay Eveleen eyes face father feeling flowers Frederick French girls give Grisell hand heard heart heaven honour idea Jack Joachim Du Bellay king land learning light live look Magazine Mapleton Mary masque Max Müller mind Miss Bishop Miss Temple morning mother nature never night noble nurse Oxford High School passed Passion-play play poem poet poor Princess prize proverb Religio Medici Remi Belleau Rolleston Ronsard round Sartor Resartus Saxon Switzerland sea-maiden seems side sonnet soon spirit stone tell term things thou thought Transvaal trees Ulundi village Violet voice walk weary wish woman women wonderful words
Popular passages
Page 330 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 138 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 124 - QUAND vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle, Assise auprès du feu, dévidant et filant, Direz chantant mes vers, en vous esmerveillant: Ronsard me celebroit du temps que j'estois belle.
Page 330 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 36 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 378 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind...
Page 432 - Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, Nor the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again: ye have seen what ye have seen.
Page 137 - The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
Page 407 - I have no genius to disputes in religion : and have often thought it wisdom to decline them, especially upon a disadvantage, or when the cause of truth might suffer in the weakness of my patronage. Where we desire to be informed, 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves ; but, to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
Page 431 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?