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“From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.”

Feels Mind England Architecture Helpless Tourists Standpoint Visitors Oxford Anecdotes Overpowering

Book:With Malice Toward Some

Source: With Malice Toward Some

“I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.”

Way Next Wife Mets Sitting England My Wife Scholar Airplane Headings Oxford Jennifer

Author:Derek Kilmer

“The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.”

Hard England Notion Profession 1960s Oxford

Author:Robert Darnton

“It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.”

Made Book Country Use Young Left Liberty Months England Curiosity University Gentleman Frontiers November Oxford English Gentleman

Book:The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes

Source: The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes

“None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.”

Persons Character Stories Cities Imagine Events Limits England Towns Ancient Noble Unlikely Oxford

Book:The Moving Toyshop

Source: The Moving Toyshop