Hints for Oxford - by J. Campbell Author:John Campbell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. III. ?n Dent anO Dune. Thus while my joyless minutes tedious flow, With looks demure, and silent pace, a Don, Horrible monster! hated by gods and men... more », To my aerial citadel ascends, With vocal heel thrice thundering at my gate. Philips This is a subject of no little interest to the good Protestants at Oxford. Wise men, and worthy though they be, there are few of them that have not suffered, or are still suffering, from the evils of long bills and short allowances. Debt was in our day the main misery of college life. The wine was soured in the cup when the thought occurred of the long- standing " small account;" the smartest coat sat uneasily on the most buckish back ; nay, what was worse, the very bottom sat insecurely on sofa and chair, trembling lest the unpaid upholsterer should rush in, " and " push us from our stools." It was our fate to live in a sadly haunted staircase, and we can still well remember how through the live-long day the clang of war resounded; how loudly and vainly thundered the angry tradesman's knuckles on many an unyielding oak, and many a bolted door : KrvTrov SiFopKa, , t, Uarayov r Aux we AOP02. JEtehjlas. It was a very miserable state of things in any Christian country ; and we have every reason to believe that it still continues the same as of yore. Our sentiments, therefore, on this subject, will be echoed in many a sympathizing bosom. We can easily conceive howeagerly the victims of dunnish persecution will turn up to this chapter, and how zealously they will read, save that ever and anon they pause, lest the ominous foot-fall be heard approaching: Still as they read they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gray. But to begin from the beginning, as Aristotle says, it is obvi...« less