The Southern Empire
The Southern Empire
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Walter Savage Landor was dismissed from Trinity Col lege for playfully emptying the contents of a double-barreled shotgun into the windows of a man living upon the opposite side of the quad rangle, of whose political opinions he did not ap prove. Although the shutters were closed, and no bodily damage was done, the university failed 138 OXFORD. Utterly to discover in this impulsive and highly original act the distinctive poetic temperament, and so Landor was " sent down, " as the phrase runs. T...he university was more lenient in the last half of the last century, when it would forgive almost anything but religious apostasy. Tutors were listless, and proctorial authority limp. " The fellows of Magdalen, " says Gibbon, "were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder. . . . From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences. " This was during one of the periods of depression which marked the uni versity life from time to time, and which may be partly explained by the fact that for cen turies the university had been subjected to ec clesiastical espionage.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Walter Savage Landor was dismissed from Trinity Col lege for playfully emptying the contents of a double-barreled shotgun into the windows of a man living upon the opposite side of the quad rangle, of whose political opinions he did not ap prove. Although the shutters were closed, and no bodily damage was done, the university failed 138 OXFORD. Utterly to discover in this impulsive and highly original act the distinctive poetic temperament, and so Landor was " sent down, " as the phrase runs. T...he university was more lenient in the last half of the last century, when it would forgive almost anything but religious apostasy. Tutors were listless, and proctorial authority limp. " The fellows of Magdalen, " says Gibbon, "were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder. . . . From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their consciences. " This was during one of the periods of depression which marked the uni versity life from time to time, and which may be partly explained by the fact that for cen turies the university had been subjected to ec clesiastical espionage.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Oliver T Oliver Throck Morton to read onlineMoreLess
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