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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:21 CHAPTER III. ROYAL POMPS AND THEATRICAL SCENERY. In Sir Isaac Wake's 'Rex Platonicus'-a copy of Avhich closely-printed duodecimo product of scholastic pedantry is preserved in the library of the British Museum-the reader, who has enough learning and patience to arrive at the meaning of the 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:21 CHAPTER III. ROYAL POMPS AND THEATRICAL SCENERY. In Sir Isaac Wake's 'Rex Platonicus'-a copy of Avhich closely-printed duodecimo product of scholastic pedantry is preserved in the library of the British Museum-the reader, who has enough learning and patience to arrive at the meaning of the author's fantastic Latin, may ascertain with what costly pomp the Oxonians received James the First in the August of 1605, when that Platonic King deigned to honour Oxford by smiling on her schools and colleges throughout four festive and sultry days. Isaac Wake, whilom of Merton College and in hia most prosperous days a diplomatic envoy from his Platonic Majesty to divers foreign courts, was the most eminent professor and practitioner of Latin talk in his university, when the first of our Scotch sovereigns appeared in Oxford, to show the Southerners how scholars spoke the classic tongues in parts lying north of the Tweed; and it devolved upon the courtly and fortunate Isaac, acting in thecapacity of University Orator, to clothe in fitting terms the sentiments of loyalty and grateful devotion with which the academicians regarded the sublime and sacred personage, whom the official spouter was proud to glorify as 'totius Europas decus et ornamentum.' Though this honour and ornament of all Europe had not attained to the fulness of the corporeal girth for which he was remarkable in his later years, he was already a gentleman by no means undistinguished by protuberance of paunch, and his native brogue was in a high state of musical perfection, when in his fortieth year he rode over from Woodstock to Alma Mater's ground, in the course of one of those splendid and sumptuous progresses by which he was accustomed to prove the loyalty and exhaust the finances of his rural aristocracy. Books, , Annals-of-Oxford~~John-Cordy-Jeaffreson, 999999999, Annals of Oxford (Volume 2), John Cordy Jeaffreson, 1151888699, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781151888693

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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:21 CHAPTER III. ROYAL POMPS AND THEATRICAL SCENERY. In Sir Isaac Wake's 'Rex Platonicus'—a copy of Avhich closely-printed duodecimo product of scholastic pedantry is preserved in the library of the British Museum—the reader, who has enough learning and patience to arrive at the meaning of the author's fantastic Latin, may ascertain with what costly pomp the Oxonians received James the First in the August of 1605, when that Platonic King deigned to honour Oxford by smiling on her schools and colleges throughout four festive and sultry days. Isaac Wake, whilom of Merton College and in hia most prosperous days a diplomatic envoy from his Platonic Majesty to divers foreign courts, was the most eminent professor and practitioner of Latin talk in his university, when the first of our Scotch sovereigns appeared in Oxford, to show the Southerners how scholars spoke the classic tongues in parts lying north of the Tweed; and it devolved upon the courtly and fortunate Isaac, acting in thecapacity of University Orator, to clothe in fitting terms the sentiments of loyalty and grateful devotion with which the academicians regarded the sublime and sacred personage, whom the official spouter was proud to glorify as 'totius Europas decus et ornamentum.' Though this honour and ornament of all Europe had not attained to the fulness of the corporeal girth for which he was remarkable in his later years, he was already a gentleman by no means undistinguished by protuberance of paunch, and his native brogue was in a high state of musical perfection, when in his fortieth year he rode over from Woodstock to Alma Mater's ground, in the course of one of those splendid and sumptuous progresses by which he was accustomed to prove the loyalty and exhaust the finances of his rural aristocracy. Books Books Annals-of-Oxford~~John-Cordy-Jeaffreson General Books LLC<