OXFORD IN THE VACATION
ations in a sc;far off t; -- I old you sucs-day falls out next er. Peradventure ty tle better t me not be t to arraign tion of tides to be papistical, superstitious. Only in a custom of sucanding, met sounded -- but I am of my dept to decide ts of civil and ecclesiastical auty -- I am plain Elia -- no Selden, nor Arc present in t of learning, under ty Bodley.
I can leman, enact tudent. to suc food of academic institution, noo ies. tion, too, at time of t ake my ed, and fancy myself of anding I please. I seem admitted ad eundem. I fetc opportunities. I can rise at t it rings for me. In moods of y I can be a Sizar, or a Servitor. rut a Gentleman Commoner. In graver moments, I proceed Master of Arts. Indeed I do not t respectable cer. I acles, drop a bosy, as I pass, aking me for somet. I go about in black, to pass for not of a Serapor.
t times are so mucall trees of Cs, ted, and ing one to slip in unperceived, and pay a devoir to some Founder, or noble or royal Benefactress (t srait seems to smile upon to adopt me for to take a peep in by t tteries, and sculleries, redolent of antique ality: tcc pies uries ago; and spits minister among t is o me tion, and th a Manciple.
Antiquity! t art t, being not every t, t not antiquity -- t not a remoter antiquity, as t it, to look back to ion; to t, jejune, modern! mystery lurks in troversion? or look forry ! ty future is as not is every thing!
[Footnote] * Januses of one face. -- Sir thomas Browne.